Full Name: Earvin Johnson Profession: NBA Legend Biography: Basketball legend who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA for 13 seasons. He won a championship and an NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his rookie season, and won four more championships with the Lakers during the 1980s. Born: August 14, 1959 Birthplace: Lansing, Michigan, USA Age: 65 years old Generation: Baby Boomer Chinese Zodiac: Pig

In the Christian calendar, Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday, the day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday, is a day to feast before the weeks-long fast that ends with Easter. While it’s many cities celebrate that last chance to party, which falls this Tuesday, no city is more famous for Mardi Gras — “Fat Tuesday” in French — than New Orleans. And, though the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans originated in this Christian tradition, today the celebration is better known as a day for people of all faiths, races, and ethnicities to come together at the parades, eat great food, and compete to catch beads, doubloons and other throws from the people wearing masks on the floats parading down the streets.

Lower back pain is the leading cause of job disability in the world. About one in ten people have it, and for many who develop back pain, the condition becomes chronic. Now, a new study finds that massage may provide lasting relief for chronic lower back pain, according to research published in the journal Pain Medicine. To see how people in the real world respond to massage, researchers looked at 104 people with persistent back pain who were referred by their doctors to licensed massage therapists.

To the coroner’s jury that had heard eight days of testimony, it was a “gross technical error.” To Dr. Jean-Paul Drouin, 50, of Ottawa’s Montfort Hospital, it was a “complication.” To three of Drouin’s surgical patients, it meant slow, painful death. The operation in question, a modification of one devised in 1912 for controlling incurable metabolic disorders, is chancy at best. It is based on the fact that shortening the digestive tract cuts down on caloric absorption, enabling excessively overweight people to shed pounds regardless of how much they eat.

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