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It was Keegan Jenkin’s 70th birthday when the phone rang at exactly eight in the morning. It was UCSD again and this time they wanted him to come in to participate in a pharmaceutical research project, if he qualified. In the waiting room of the Geriatrics Center, a woman … [Read more...]
I’m one of those who want to make my money the old fashioned way -- inherit it. But coming from a family whose credit scores are lower than death row inmates and refer to debtor’s prison as “our summer home,” that prospect seems unlikely. So I hired Freddie’s Five & Dime … [Read more...]
It’s September again here in Louisiana—the time of year when you turn on the local news and get, at most, five minutes of actual news coverage. The rest is evenly split between high school football and the tropical weather update. “The National Hurricane Center predicts that … [Read more...]
The three college students' names were Tom, Mike, and Derek. They were young, ambitious, and full of testosterone. Lots of it. They rode in my taxi every weekend, going from the dorms to off-campus parties. For them, the party always started at the dorms. After months of … [Read more...]
Samuel Adams took a stool at the bar, whilst he waited on his bud. Wiser men around him were debating the brewing revolution and the British High Life feeling for their American cousins. Samuel thought that now might be the time for a hard cider approach to the British. The talk … [Read more...]