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On the menu: medallions of fresh-caught tortoise and wild sirloin steak - enough to feed a party of 35. Sound delicious? It's too late to order. This particular repast was served 12,000 years ago. Researchers have long suspected that inviting the neighbors over to share a meal is an ancient human tradition. But until recently evidence that humans were throwing banquets and attending…
September 1, 2010
O&G Industries of Torrington, Conn., stood to gain a $19 million incentive if it finished construction early on the Kleen Energy plant in Middletown, federal officials said as they issued $16.6 million in fines to O&G and other firms for the Feb. 7 explosion at the power plant that killed six workers and injured several dozen. It was the third highest total fine ever issued…
August 6, 2010
Millions of children go off summer camps across the country during July and August, but it's not always fun in the sun. To keep your campers healthy and happy, follow these suggestions from the American Camp Association, Dr. James Parker of Connecticut Children's Medical Center and Dr. Marie Vitale of Hartford Hospital: • Sun and Heat Protection: Protecting campers from…
July 25, 2010
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After a week of uncertainty about when Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez would resign following his conviction on corruption charges, the transition occurred Friday in the span of a minute. Pledging to change the way city government is run, Pedro Ernesto Segarra, the city council president, was sworn in as Hartford's 66th mayor at 5:01 p.m. Perez's resignation took effect at 5 p.m. "This…
June 27, 2010
Connecticut
Two families whose young children became seriously ill in July 2008 from E. coli bacteria in raw milk produced by a Simsbury dairy are suing the dairy and Whole Foods Market Inc., whose store in West Hartford, Conn., sold the tainted milk. The three children - a brother and sister, then 3 and 1, and another girl, then 3 - were hospitalized. Two of the children suffered kidney failure…
December 13, 2009
What would you say about a teen relationship in which the guy is so obsessed and protective he sneaks into his loved one's bedroom to watch her sleep; seems to stalk her every move; tries to control whom she sees; and even disables her truck engine so she can't go out? Or how about a girl who is equally obsessed with this guy even though he continually tells her he's dangerous,…
November 19, 2009
A group of interplanetary aliens studying Americans might easily decide that we are the cleanest bunch of folks in the galaxy. "They've got all these hand sanitizers," they would say to the Mother Ship. "Stuff called Purell." Of course these aliens wouldn't know we didn't come by cleanliness altruistically. That we are not clean without a cause. That our true motivation is fear.…
October 3, 2009
Seattle 3, Boston 2
BOSTON - Sunshine finally made more than just a cameo appearance over Fenway Park yesterday, but a dark cloud seemed to hang over the Red Sox.
Whether at the plate or in the field, every time the Red Sox seemed due for some good fortune, luck found its way into the Mariners dugout instead.
A certain RBI single by Jacoby Ellsbury instead became a critical out. A harmless popup behind…
July 5, 2009
The senior simulator suit I'm wearing has jettisoned me a few decades into the future.
The neck-to-ankle jumper has straps and pads that restrict the movement of my knees, back and elbows. Weights render my arms heavier. Straps make it hard to stand up straight. Gloves restrict the movement of my fingers - and pads on the fingertips make picking things up next to impossible.
A neck…
July 5, 2009
An indication that Gov. Mark Sanford's extramarital affair wouldn't be business as usual was the absence of his wife, Jenny Sanford, from his icky news conference last week.
Add to that her statements of not knowing her husband's whereabouts and not seeming to particularly care.
Wouldn't it be something if this ushered in a new era for political spouses, spouses who have their own…
July 2, 2009
The iPhone (and iPod Touch) have made it cool to talk about "apps" - the 25,000-plus applications available at the iTunes store. Here are a few nongaming favorites, free unless noted.
Art: This art encyclopedia, with artist bios and galleries, is the definitive mobile source for barroom disagreements ("Gustav Klimt's 'Danae' is, indeed, more provocative than 'Judith and the Head…
May 17, 2009
Connecticut
A judge agreed to freeze at least $10 million worth of assets belonging to the owner of a chimpanzee who savagely attacked a woman in February.
Charla Nash of Stamford, Conn., remains in critical but stable condition at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, where she was taken for long-term medical care after the attack, in which she suffered traumatic brain injury and the loss of her hands,…
May 7, 2009
The top two editors of the Hartford Courant, both longtime journalists at the newspaper, are leaving their jobs and will be replaced by an interim editor starting today, the newspaper's new senior vice president announced yesterday.
Cliff Teutsch has been the editor and Barbara Roessner has been managing editor since 2006. Roessner's position was eliminated, and she was not offered…
May 5, 2009
You know why I own a yellow Lab? Because I couldn't stand having a dog who is smarter than me.
For nearly 15 years, I was teased, provoked and, sad to say, outsmarted by the wisest dog I've ever known, a Portuguese water dog named Jackie Robinson. Or, as my buddies called her, "Jackie the Wonder Dog."
April 21, 2009
