A Sampling of Clips for 
August 22, 2006

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Patterns: Exchanging Vows
May Pay Off in the Long Run
The New York Times, Aug. 21 -- Marriage, new research confirms, can be good for your health. Researchers surveyed more than 80,000 Americans and found that people who never married were 58 percent more likely to die during the course of an eight-year study than their married peers. The study’s co-author, Richard G. Kronick of UCSD suggested that “it may be that there is something physiologically protective about being married.” More

Creative Husband-Wife Team
Saying Goodbye to Eveoke
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 21 -- After 12 years of overseeing the production of cutting-edge works at Eveoke Dance Theatre, Gina Angelique and her husband, Christopher Hall, are leaving the downtown San Diego-based arts company they helped establish. (Quotes Jean Isaacs, who teaches dance at UCSD) More

County to Hold Meeting
Regarding Benzene Gas Levels
10 News.com, Aug. 21 -- Since the March 2006 10News investigation of deadly benzene gases seeping from a Poway landfill, officials from the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health completed testing and issued a 1,500-page report with the results. “Benzene really attacks the bone marrow system of the body,” said Dr. Ruth Markowitz Heifetz of UCSD Preventative Medicine. More