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What Are the Best and Worst Cities in America for Heart Health?
Do you remember that episode of Seinfeld where a hypochondria-fueled George Costanza thinks he's having a heart attack after watching a segment on PBS called "Coronary Country"? Well, maybe George had a point. It turns out there are plenty of reasons to be fearful of heart disease, the leading killer of people in the United States.
Recently, the folks at Men's Health set out to find exactly where in America the dreaded heart disease resides the most. To do this they looked at 100 cities and ranked them based on information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including statistics on smokers, exercise, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes. Air-quality statistics from the Environmental Protection Agency were also considered.
It looks like if you want to avoid having a heart attack, a move to San Francisco might be in order, as it topped the list for being the best city in America for maintaining heart health. It received an A+.
However, if you happen to live in the worst city in America for heart health (Philadelphia), don't say you were never warned.
For a complete list of the grades, click here.
Best Cities in America for Heart Health
1. San Francisco: A+
2. Aurora, Colorado: A+
3. Seattle: A+
4. Austin, Texas: A+
5. Colorado Springs, Colorado: A+
6. Burlington, Vermont: A+
7. Minneapolis: A+
8. Portland, Oregon: A+
9. Boise City, Idaho: A
10. Oakland, California: A
Worst Cities in America for Heart Health
1. Philadelphia: F
2. Birmingham, Alabama: F
3. Charleston, West Virginia: F
4. Baltimore: F
5. St. Louis: F
6. Milwaukee: F
7. Toledo, Ohio: F
8. Buffalo, New York: F
9. Cleveland: F
10. Tulsa, Oklahoma: F


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BOSTON- The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) and Massachusetts State Police today reminded motorists that state law requires vehicle license plate numbers to be legible and unobscured by a glass or plastic cover or other device.
Chapter 90, Section 6 of the Massachusetts General Laws requires that a vehicle number license plate always be plainly visible with the numbers legible and not obscured by the installation of any device obscuring the numbers.
A violation of the legible plate requirements carries a $35 fine for first offense, $75 for second offense and $150 for third offense.
In the first six months of 2014, state and local police have issued approximately 4,000 violations of the legible plate requirement law. The Massachusetts State Police have issued 1,900 violations and say enforcement efforts will continue.
Legible plates allowing for prompt vehicle identification are a traffic safety priority and necessary for implementation of the new All-Electronic Tolling system now in place on the Tobin Bridge and set to expand on all Massachusetts tolled roads in the next two years. For those vehicles without an E-ZPass transponder, a camera captures an image of the vehicle license plate and a Pay-By-Plate invoice for the toll is mailed to the vehicle's registered owner.
"Easily identifiable license plate information is not only critical to highway safety but also promotes the fair collection of tolls from vehicles lacking an E-ZPass transponder," said MassDOT Highway Administrator Frank DePaola. "We want to warn motorists about the legible plate requirement and also encourage everyone to sign up for E-ZPass."
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When we lose to them in football, it's like a census." said Nick Callahill, a 2002 Michigan alum. "Every State fan I've ever met, known or crossed paths with calls, emails or posts on my Facebook page."
Todd Woolbridge, class of '98, agreed. "Right after the game ended, my phone rang. I answer to some guy shouting, 'Go State! We kicked your ass! Michigan sucks!' and I'm like, 'Who is this?' And the shouting voice stops long enough to say, 'It's Jerry.' 'Jerry who? I don't know any Jerry.' And the guy says, 'I bagged your groceries about six months ago. You had a Michigan hat on. So I got your number off your club card.' How annoying."
Mitch Henderset, U-M class of 1996, agreed with Woolbridge's agreement. "Those green bastards come out of the fucking woodwork," said the Farmington Hills attorney. "I get divorced, I don't hear a thing. My son's birthday? Nothing. But lose to them in football and they find my number faster than one of their players finds the laptop in his neighbor's unlocked dorm room. Yes, I saw the banner draped over the stadium and got the bad photoshop of the supposed 'Michigan girl' blowing Sparty. They were each mildly amusing the first 57 times they clogged my inbox."
But Amber Solinski, who got her MBA from Michigan in 1999, sees a silver lining in the onslaught of Spartan outreach following a U-M loss. "I had no idea I had somehow let 236 MSU fans into my life. But the post-loss MSU head count really let me know I have to be more careful about who I associate with."
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WILMINGTON — The state is weighing competing viewpoints from environmental groups and water districts as it shapes the final details of proposed water-use regulations expected to go into effect before the end of the year.
On one end are environmentalists who argue that proposed water-use limits won't go far enough in curtailing effects on the state's waterways. On the other are water districts who insist that thresholds for water use are based on decade-old data that doesn't properly account for population growth.
Water districts could be subject to tight restrictions on how much water they use, or else be required to mitigate their effect on the environment by returning more treated wastewater to waterways or complete projects like removing dams that would benefit the Earth.
"Most water-utility people do consider themselves environmentalists," said Todd Melanson, the environmental- compliance manager for the Chelmsford Water District, who testified against the proposed regulations at a Department of Environmental Protection public hearing at Wilmington Town Hall Wednesday.
The regulations, however, don't take into account conservation efforts made by water districts statewide, Melanson added. In Chelmsford alone, the town uses about 300 million gallons less per year than it used to, he said.
"I don't think those improvements have been recognized in these regulations," Melanson said.
Another water official, Michael Lavin, the Wrentham Water District superintendent, said the proposed limits on how much water can be taken from a source don't fairly take population growth into consideration. Limits will likely be based on use levels ending in 2005, and will add 5 percent to account for some growth.
"If we're taking historical usage, that's not a baseline," he said.
Most who spoke at the hearing were from watershed or other environmental groups.
"We're nothing short of incredibly disappointed," said Wayne Castonguay, executive director of the Ipswich River Watershed Association. The proposed regulations, for example, might put tight restrictions on one resident but not a neighbor who happens to take from a different water source, he said.
"It's really about time we treat everybody equally," Castonguay said.
Nancy Goodman, vice president for policy for the Environmental League of Massachusetts, said opposition to the science being used by the DEP reminded her of opposition to the existence of climate change. She urged tighter restrictions, including mitigation requirements that would most directly improve waterways.
"We urge the DEP to go even further," Goodman said. "We have taken underpriced water for granted for a long time, and that slowly needs to shift."
Groups including the Massachusetts Water Works Association and the Massachusetts Municipal Association have argued against the proposed regulations, saying they will add more costs to sewer bills and keep water districts from being able to invest in needed infrastructure improvements.
Average water bills already vary greatly across communities, according to Tighe & Bond, an environmental and engineering consultant.
The average bill is $661 in Tewksbury and $608 in Westford, according to a 2012 survey by the consulting group. In Burlington, the average bill was only $182, and the typical bill was under $400 for the North Chelmsford Water District, Lowell and Billerica.
In north central Massachusetts, rates range from $254 in Fitchburg to $456 in Leominster to more than $500 each in Lancaster, Lunenburg, Shirley and Sterling.
Data also shows that most water districts have been using less water on a per-capita basis than they did in 2006. More efficient water use has been cited by water districts arguing they've already spent on improvements.
Among 17 districts across Greater Lowell and North Central Massachusetts, only the Groton, West Groton, Townsend and Wilmington districts used more water per person in 2012 than in 2006.
Almost all also make it under a threshold of 65 gallons per person per day, which will become an important factor in the new regulations for determining which districts would need to offset their environmental impact. Only Townsend and Westford used more than 65 gallons in 2012.
In what may also become a key factor, most communities also have unaccounted-for water rates of less than 10 percent of their total use. All except Littleton, Lowell, Shirley and Tewksbury made it under the 10-percent threshold, which is another measure of efficiency.
The state Water Resources Commission will ultimately vote on the new policies. Though the rules are expected to go into effect before the end of the year, it will be some time after that until water use in the Lowell area will change.
The Merrimack, Shawsheen and Nashua rivers' current permits don't expire until 2018. The Concord River permit is expected to be granted a one-year extention to August 2015.
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Lindsay Lohan began serving her house arrest term Thursday morning, and she'll be stuck inside her Venice, Calif., townhouse for at least a couple of weeks. The sentence stems from her no-contest plea to stealing a $2,500 necklace while on probation for driving drunk. The perpetually troubled actress reported to the Lynwood Jail at 5:02 a.m., then learned she was eligible for home confinement, People magazine reported.
"She is now confined to the interior premises of her home at all times," L.A. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore told the magazine.
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The "Mean Girls" star will wear an electronic ankle bracelet to ensure she doesn't wander off. She faces a maximum of four months, but with good behavior, she could be free in two weeks. The state is battling an epic prison overcrowding issue, which likely helped make Lohan eligible to serve her sentence at home.
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I believe your Blue Diamond may have worms rather than bacterial given you just treated your tank for bacterial. Am I correct that your new discus are fine at the moment?
I'm not always logged in, but if you PM me, I'll get back to you quickly.
The thing with medicines...you don't want to rush to a quick judgment and pick the wrong medicine then have to switch. Medicines are difficult on our discus systems. So I just want to be sure I'm understanding your correctly with what is going on in your tank.
Like Ryan said earlier...mixing new fish with your existing discus is a gamble and quarantining new fish is important. Some folks quarantine for at least six weeks. The reason is due to what the new discus might bring into the tank or what the existing discus may transmit to the new discus. Even if they all appear health at the moment, there are dormant issues...carriers if you will that one or the other might pass along.
No worries though...we all make mistakes and I have made my share as well along the way. Just keep me posted and I'll help all I can.
So the sort answer is... no I wouldn't start Furan 2...good clean water and salt for a couple of days. Add 2 tablespoons of salt/10 gallons and I'll look for your answer to the question in post #21.
hey there
I didn't quarantine the discus which I know was a huge mistake. My one blue diamond does have internal parasites, I have prazipro now, thinking of soaking their food in it.
All of my fish have cloudy eyes and are darker in color now. They had cloudy eyes yesterday and now they have worse cloudy eyes and are darker in color. They arrant happy that is for sure.
I picked u discus essentials and Kents RO right. I have placed both in the tank along with the salt you have recommended. (that was earlier had to go to work)
Now I am back home and about to do a water change. for the fish add the salt RO right and discus essentials.
So you suggest I just change the water every day and watch for a few more days?
Seems to be getting progressively worse. I know that water is the biggest deal and ive tested it for nitrates nitrites etc
ammonia and nitrite are at 0 and nitrate is at 10ppm. going to change the water now and wait to see if I should medicate with Furan or not
Thanks again!
I sent you a PM for med instructions and dosage.
You can use salt with Furan after you do your water change today cleaning out any remaining muck (50% should be good). Keep lights out in and around the tank. Most medicines including Furan lose their potency over time. You will want to redose in 24 hours after your next water change of at least 25%. Normal dose this time.
Be sure to mix the Furan in warm non-chlorinated water to dissolve before adding to the tank. It will make your water yellow, but that's to be expected.
Last edited by Discus_Dude; 03-06-2010 at 02:21 AM.
PS: keep an eye on your discus from time-to-time for possible reactions to meds. It's unlikely, but it's a good general practice to have. You should always be ready to do a water change if needed.
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just read your other reply, Awesome! Thank you so much!
So you don't suggest I treat the tank with the medicine i ordered? Also I have never fed them flake food, think they will get hungry enough to eat it? Sure hope so =o)
Very nice write up and thanks for the time it took you to write it and bring it to the forum.
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Photographers William Daniels, Pierre Terdjman and Michaël Zumstein share the same ambition: to go back to Central African Republic (CAR) to continue the work they started in late 2013 and early 2014 when the country's ethnic, religious and political divisions led to the massacre of 2,600 people.
But they face a major obstacle: a lack of international interest in a region that only makes headlines when the most extreme violence erupts.
"Fewer journalists are going to CAR today since it's become more difficult to get support from media organizations," says Daniels, a French photographer who, earlier this year, covered the fighting for TIME and a handful of other international publications. "For many people, CAR is just another poor and undeveloped country in Africa where everyone's fighting everyone. We don't understand why, and we don't even want to understand."
Zumstein, on assignment for the French newspaper Le Monde, was one of the first journalists to fly to CAR in September 2013 to document the increasingly volatile situation there. Terdjman, who had received backing from Paris Match in the early days of the conflict, soon joined Zumstein, with both men sharing hotel rooms, cars and drivers, often working alongside other photographers and journalists.
"I felt there was no competition between us," Zumstein tells TIME. "We were all motivated by the story. We [sometimes] wondered whether we were doing the same things, but in the end, that wasn't the case." The fact that Zumstein worked for a daily newspaper while Terdjman filed his pictures to a weekly magazine also helped create a sense of collaboration between the two photographers. "We weren't building the same narratives," says Terdjman. "It's rare to be able to work like this with another photographer—to go beyond your own photographs and your own narrative. It felt like a sort of workshop."
Many of these photographers' conversations come back again and again to the role they were playing in documenting the conflict—especially when they were witnesses to acts of barbarism. "When you witness a guy being cut in pieces and emasculated in front of you, your first reaction as a journalist is to get the photograph, but the second thing is to try to understand what actually happened," says Zumstein. "A few times, we've discussed whether we should publish such images." While both men sent violent and disturbing photographs to their respective newsrooms, they often argued for them to remain unpublished. "Part of the propaganda campaign in CAR is to scare your adversary," Zumstein adds. "We can become intermediaries in these situations. At some points, guys would come to us announcing that they had arrested a Muslim man and were going to kill him in front of us. In these situations, you know that if you accept, you'll witness [acts of torture] that might not have taken place otherwise."
Still, all three photographers are unwavering in their dedication to cover the country's deeply rooted struggles. "CAR has an unbelievable past," says Daniels. "In the last 40 years, only one president was able to finish his term. All of the others were removed in coups."
Despite this troubling history, recent coverage of the violence in the former French colony has been sparse. "TIME was one of the only international magazines that continued to follow the situation on the ground even after the worst of the fighting," says Daniels. "Many organizations felt that it was France's problem, and that was also the case when it came time for the international community to commit military forces to stem the fighting."
This position still stands today. "I want to go back," says Terdjman, who has been struggling to find further funding. "I feel that this lack of interest is due in part to the predominance of 24-hour news networks. I think they are responsible for that sense of saturation that so many people feel. It's like this open faucet that inundates you with updates at all times of the day. At some point, viewers don't want to hear anything more about this, and that's particularly true when you're working for a magazine. When a magazine comes out on a Thursday and discusses an event that took place on the preceding Monday, you have to understand that news networks and the online publications have spent these three days talking about these events non-stop. When your readers buy that issue, they're already saturated."
As a result, photographers have been forced to find different angles to these stories or pursue ever-elusive scoops. "It makes it very difficult," says Terdjman. Daniels believes the lack of coverage has implications for the situation on the ground. "I'm pessimistic about the evolution of this crisis," the latter tells TIME. "France and the African Union are struggling to stop the fighting and the international community isn't playing a real part. The problem is that without any media [coverage] of what's happening there, it's going to be hard for things to change."
Zumstein shares that pessimism, even though he believes he's done his job as a journalist and photojournalist. "The fact that I was there in the early days and that we were able to publish a large essay in Le Monde Geopolitique [one of Le Monde's spin-off titles] helped bring awareness to the issue," he explains. "I'm proud of what we did, since, very quickly, a lot of photographers and journalists contacted me to inquire about CAR. I felt that a lot of them became interested in the story after the work we did."
Now, Zumstein adds, as United Nations deploys its troops in CAR -- 636 uniformed personel in position as of July -- it will be time for someone else to document that chapter of the country's history. "That's another story. I don't feel I have to play an urgent role in it, but it doesn't mean I won't pay attention to what's going on there. When I go back, I'll do something else. I'll look to draw conclusions about what has happened there."
Daniels, who's received funding to continue his work, will be back later this September. But he remains pessimistic about the impact of his work. "Right now, all eyes are turned towards the Ebola crisis in Western Africa. I've received many offers of assignments to cover Ebola, but none to go back to CAR."
William Daniels is a photographer represented by Panos Pictures. Daniels previously wrote for LightBox about his escape from Syria. Pierre Terdjman is a freelance photographer and the co-founder of the #Dysturb collective. Michael Zumstein is a French-Swiss photographer represented by Agence VU.
Olivier Laurent is the editor of TIME LightBox. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @ olivierclaurent


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Don't recall if the following is one of Elmore Leonard's writing rules, but he has admonished that even if it's just a gunsel used in one passage, do your best to give that hood some sort of individuality, some sort of dimensionality. Keeping that in mind, when I introduce a character who is frankly fulfilling a plot function, I often imagine a physical, psychological or back story attribute to that character. None of this may make it onto the page, but it will shape how I describe my other characters reacting to this character or how this character speaks.
What also intrigues me, and writers from the aforementioned Mr. Leonard, Jules Verne to Asimov and James Ellroy, will have a seemingly secondary or minor character show up in one story yet take center stage in another. To me that's like in comics where we now have the DC Universe – or DC Universe 2.0 as they did a reboot of all their characters a year ago, the New 52 (as in 52 titles) – and now, well, Marvel Now. The latter comes in the wake of the reverberations of the Marvel Universe-wide X-men versus Avengers and is billed as a re-launch, not a reconfiguring of its characters like DC did.
Not to worry, this is not the forum where I'll get all fanboy, geeked out on inconsistencies in timelines here; like how does a now younger New 52 Batman/Bruce Wayne have an 18 or 20-year-old Dick Grayson (former Robin, boy wonder sidekick, now Nightwing, a costumed vigilante in his own right) as his ward? To return to the point, it's kind of a cool thing to build your own world, working out the interconnections. I've done it where I've had a main character referenced, sometimes obliquely, in another book or short story. There's a mega-conglomerate I've used, a many headed company called SubbaKhan or its subsidiaries have shown up in several of my books with diverse storylines.
I hope one day to employ even a small percentage of the myriad characters and institutions Marvel and DC, Verne and Asimov, have introduced and cross-pollinated in their stories. To have some characters who are secondary or tertiary in one setting, step from the shadows and take center stage in the next and go back to having a cameo if you will in another setting. Some die, some change, some move on and some are reimagied – like say extrapolating what ever happened to Wilmer (thus the still of the great character actor Elisha Cook Jr. who played Wilmer in the Maltese Falcon film) after he got out of prison.
For me then, being interested in my major and minor characters helps me to keep them interesting.


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Actress Eva Longoria has used her celebrity before to express opinions about political causes.
Now, the "Desperate Housewives" star is using Twitter to lash out at Republican hopeful Mitt Romney over his lack of support for citizenship for illegal aliens who attend college or serve in the military.
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Longoria, a Corpus Christi native, called out Mitt Romney on Twitter for not supporting the DREAM Act, the Huffington Post wrote. The Dream Act, if passed, would grant permanent residence to people who came to the U.S. illegally but have contributed to society, whether by seeking an education or enlisting in the military.
The irony here, of course, is that Romney is a Mexican by way of his father, who was born in Chihuahua, Mexico.
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by Jane Lenel
Ella Russell Torrey, who now lives in Cathedral Village in upper Roxborough, was born Aug. 7, 1925 in Philadelphia and lived in Edgewater Park,NJ, on the Delaware River. A graduate of Moorestown Friends School, Torrey's focus was on modern dance and English at Bennington College, but she left Martha Graham and Shakespeare behind after graduation in 1947 and pursued an interest in international relations. She soon found her way to the United Nations, newly created in 1945, where she served its prime charter aims of maintaining international peace, fundamental human rights and the equal rights of men, women and nations. She spent the next 50 years of her career working toward these goals.
Her first move was to Paris where — though clearly not her chosen beat — she got a job as fashion editor for the Chicago Tribune ("From Neck to Navel"). Then, one step closer to her interest in the United Nations which, in Paris at the time, was dealing with the Arab-Israeli issue, she obtained a position on Al Misri, then Egypt's largest daily newspaper.
There she was the only woman among seven Arab men; her job: editing their "needy" English. One advantage at Al Misri, she says, was her off-hour gatherings at the local bar (drinking Coke or lemonade) with reporters covering the U.N. and U.S. State Department officers attending U.N. meetings. From these meetings came the suggestion that she apply for work at the U.S. Mission to the U.N., a branch of the State Department in New York when she returned home.
That she did in 1949 and there, as information officer, she wrote secret and unclassified reports on all U.N. meetings of the Security Council, General Assembly, and committee meetings. Each night these reports were sent to the Secretary of State, the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense, Labor and Budget offices in Washington, and to U.S. embassies overseas, providing information and background needed to formulate major U.S. policies on such issues as the Arab-Israeli conflict, German unification and Chinese representation at the U.N.
She was also rewarded with a position serving Eleanor Roosevelt, who had been appointed by President Truman as a U.S. delegate to the UN. Ella handled correspondence, edited and scheduled speeches and briefed visitors and the foreign press. Her job also included accompanying Mrs. Roosevelt to meetings, with the added responsibility of giving her a nudge to avoid being caught by a photographer if she nodded off during the endless translations of speeches. (She also gave a similar warning one time to U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, who was also the Democratic candidate for president in 1952 and 1956, passing him a note from an admirer cautioning him not to slouch.)
About her relation with Mrs. Roosevelt, Torrey said, "I wasn't afraid of her at all. Working days began with staff meetings and then scheduled U.N. meetings around 10 a.m. Lunch was either an official meeting in the delegates' dining room or, as Mrs. Roosevelt preferred, in the cafeteria where she carried her own tray, and we sat with secretaries, guards and U.N. staffers.
"It became very personal, and I was often invited to eat dinner with her and visit occasionally at Val-Kil in Hyde Park. She was a lonely woman." Torrey also remembers a painful moment when Mrs. Roosevelt was asked: "To what do you attribute the failure of your six children?" Her troubled answer: "I do not consider my children failures, but I was away from the White House so often, as I had to be Franklin's eyes, ears and legs."
After Mrs. Roosevelt left the U.N., Torrey worked for U.N. Rep. Henry Cabot Lodge as well as ambassadors, U.S. government officials and Congressional representatives. "It was a scary time during the McCarthy era, and the FBI kept track of me."
The U.N. came to an end for Torrey when she was married in 1954 and joined her husband in Cambridge, where he was attending the Harvard Business School. From there, commuting to Providence, R.I., and later living in Bethlehem, PA, she became director of local World Affairs Councils and started model United Nations programs for area high school students.
Ella's husband, Carl G. Torrey, was in market research, a graduate of Yale and the Harvard Business School. He developed the baby formula, Infamil, for Mead Johnson Pharmaceuticals. He died in 1999.
In Evansville, Indiana, still following U.N. concerns, she was president of the George Washington Carver Community Center, which was successful in integrating schools. "I loved the Midwest," she said. "You could do things for people more easily out there."
Her final move with her husband and four children was to Chestnut Hill in 1970, where she worked for 10 years as community affairs director of the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia. The organization initiated major national and international travel programs to increase income and membership, and conducted adult education programs in six suburban areas. It also established discussion groups on international issues with prominent visitors. Ella filled her "spare time" writing six booklets on the U.N. and international affairs for the Philadelphia school district.
(Two of the Torreys' children have died: Carl, a nationally ranked squash player, and Ella, former president of the San Francisco Art Institute. Another son, Russell, is a computer expert and lives in Villanova with his wife and four sons. A daughter, Elizabeth, lives in Bethesda, Md., with her husband and two young sons. She was formerly with the Agency for International Development.)
From 1981 to 1987, Ella was executive director of the International Visitors Council of Philadelphia for over 4,000 foreign visitors per year seeking business, cultural and government connections in the Philadelphia area and learning about the U.S. Constitution.
Throughout the years, always immersed in U.N. concerns, Torrey has lectured on the organization's many operations she believes much of the public is unaware of, such as disease control by the World Health Organization, scientific research exchanges through UNESCO, worldwide communication for farmers and aviators through Weather Watch and the Meteorological Organization, and nuclear watchdog surveillance by the International Atomic Energy Agency, and of course, its peace-keeping efforts.
Now in "retirement" at age 85 in upper Roxborough, she continues these lectures and adds membership and activities in a number of internationally focused area groups. She is also a board member of Chamounix Youth Hostel and the Philadelphia Global Association and a member of Friends of the Wissahickon.


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Two Republican senators are demanding congressional hearings to examine whether U.S. intelligence officials could have prevented the attacks on the Boston Marathon.
Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., want the Senate Homeland Security Committee to find out if government agencies were able to communicate with each other sufficiently -- and if they didn't, whether properly sharing that information could have alerted authorities to Tamerlan Tsarnaev and possibly saved lives.
"We are requesting that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hold a hearing as soon as possible to investigate whether our intelligence officials had information that could have prevented these attacks," McCain and Ayotte wrote Wednesday in a letter to Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del, the committee's chairman.
"It does not appear that the money spent or the information sharing environment put into place after 9/11 were useful in apprehending the Tsarnaev brothers, specifically Tamerlan Tsarnaev," the two wrote.
The call for hearings is the latest escalation of an increasingly politicized conversation on Capitol Hill about the bombings that killed three people and injured scores more.
Lawmakers are still in the early phases of learning exactly what the U.S. government knew about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the now-deceased older brother of living suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and how the government's various security agencies handled and shared that information. Both the Senate and House Intelligence Committees have been briefed by security officials, and the Senate will have a classified briefing for all members of the upper chamber on Thursday.
But it's already clear that lawmakers are seizing on possible mistakes the government made in the course of tracking Tamerlan Tsarnaev after the Russian government asked the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency for more information about him in separate requests.
A central issue is the trip Tamerlan Tsarnaev took to Russia in 2011. U.S. agencies had asked the Russian government for more information about him, but hadn't received a response. Tamerlan's trip abroad did trigger an alert, law enforcement officials have said, because he had been placed into a preliminary database the intelligence community uses.
But federal officials didn't keep tabs on him during his trip to Russia or after he returned to the U.S.
That reality drew some scrutiny on the other side of Capitol Hill, where the House Intelligence Committee received a classified briefing Wednesday afternoon with officials from the FBI, National Counterterrorism Center and Department of Homeland Security.
"I think it's important that we continue to do more in Russia, to find out when the older brother went to Russia, who did he contact? Was he radicalized there? We need more information from that," said Democratic Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the committee's ranking member.
"There was an instance where we're going to have to do some more follow up -- that does appear that somebody made a mistake," said Michigan Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, the committee's chairman, when asked about Tamerlan Tsarnaev's trip back to the U.S. from Russia.
Rogers, when pressed, declined to say which government agency he thought made the mistake.
Rogers emphasized, though, that the FBI had found no "derogatory information" -- red flags -- about Tsarnaev when they checked into him, which Rogers says explains why the government didn't -- or couldn't -- follow up.
"You've got to go with what they knew at the time," Rogers said. "What they knew at the time was there was no derogatory information."
NBC's Frank Thorp contributed to this report.


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