A special Poynter Report on writing the personal essay. Nearly 50 years of what this newsroom boss got right and wrong. Crunch Times Newsroom cutbacks, layoffs and Wall St. reaction. In Florida a new law goes into effect this summer requiring kids to have the new chicken pox vaccine before they go to school or daycares this fall. Chicken Pox kills about 100 people each year and sends 10,000 to the hospital, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
Some children suffer serious scarring.
There is a new stone called moissanite that is almost as hard as a diamond and even more brilliant. It's a man-made version of a mineral first found in a meteorite 100 years ago. Best of all, it fools a lot of the professionals. Five of them thought the moissanite ring was a real diamond worth thousands of dollars. It even tricked an electronic diamond detector.