Kentucky Derby Glasses Price Guide.
Kentucky Derby Glasses Price Guide Judy Marchman Eclipse Press c/o Blood-Horse Publications 3101 Beaumont Centre Circle, Lexington, KY 40591-9003 9781581501834, $16.95 www.eclipsepress.com Among the legions of racing fans that frequent such thoroughbred races as the Preakness, Belmont,...

Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History.
Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History. By Deborah R. Weiner. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. x, 234. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-073355-9; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03094-9.) It is a pleasure to encounter examples of the increasing--and increasingly sophisticated--literature on American Jewish life outside the...

Report: emergency preparedness lacking in many states: federal cuts to emergency preparedness funding could have dire health and financial effects, warns a nonprofit.
Too much of the country remains vulnerable to the effects of a bioterrorism attack and other health emergencies, according to a report put out by a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. For example, six years after the terrorist destruction of New York's World Trade Center, 21 states do not...

Boy saves mother.
Jeremy Cooper, an eight-year-old third-grader at Ockerman Elementary School in Florence, Kentucky, was home with his mother and younger siblings last December 22 when his mother, Natasha Cooper, suffered a grand mal seizure. Jeremy called his dad at work, and his father told the boy to hang up and...

Spelunking under the sea: a vast network of underwater caves could be the last untouched frontier.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It was the wrong day for Stephen Bogaerts to have forgotten his wet suit, but forget it he had. What followed this realization was a manic drive back to the diving center, then a hurried leap into the water. The hour-long delay turned out to...

Hot seat: Sarasota Tomorrow's Tom Dabney wants to get business more respect.
Tom Dabney is a co-chair of The Greater Sarasota Chamber's Sarasota Tomorrow campaign, a $2 million, 10-point plan to improve infrastructure and promote business-friendly initiatives, with more than one-fourth of the budget earmarked to improve public perception of Sarasota's business community. A 28-year resident, Dabney, who is also chair...

Differential impacts of smoke-free laws on indoor air quality.
Introduction Cigarette smoking is the single most preventable cause of morbidity and mortality (CDC, 2002), and secondhand smoke is the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States (Glantz & Parmley, 1991). Secondhand smoke consists of a mixture of the smoke given off by the...

Coal River.
Coal River Michael Shnayerson Farrar Straus Giroux 19 Union Square West, New York NY 10003 9780374125141, $25.00 www.fsgbooks.com Coal is used to generate over half of this country's electricity, and in West Virginia coal mining is the biggest industry...

Kentucky ministers lose occupational tax exemption.
Under pressure from a lawsuit and new state legislation, officials in a Kentucky county have agreed to stop extending an occupational tax break to ministers. Boone County Judge Executive Gary Moore said in December that clergy would lose their exemption from payroll taxes. Moore told The Cincinnati...

Complete Price Guide to Watches, 2008.
Complete Price Guide to Watches, 2008 Richard E. Gilbert, Tom Engle, Cooksey Shugart Tinderbox c/o Collector Books Box 3009, Paducah, KY 42002-3009 1574325922, $29.95 www.tinderboxpress.com Thousands of price changes in watches new to this edition make the...