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<p>Sad to report actress Annette Funicello, best known as a child performer on the original “Mickey Mouse Club” and for her beach movies with Frankie Avalon, died on Monday. She was 70.</p>

Prayers requested for my mother who passed away on Sunday at age 91 years, 9 months and 26 days after a tremendous, heart-rending struggle to survive.

To the tune of "How are things in Glocca Morra?" How are things in Tora Bora? Is the Taliban still causing grief? The have fled like rats from Kandahar, Jalalabad and Mazar-e Sharif. How are things in Tora Bora? Do the daisy cutters fill the air? Is Usama buried in a cave, or has he shaved and run to who knows where? Is Usama gone or just on the run? So I ask each fleeing tribesman, and Pashtun along the way Does Jihad actually mean "Let's run away?" How are things in Tora Bora this fine day?

I just opened the June 5, 2000 issue of Drug Topics magazine and saw a photo of what appeared to be a concerned AlGore standing at a pharmacy counter listening intently as a white-haired senior speaks with her pharmacist about her prescriptions. Then I read the caption... I quote " Staff R.Ph. Hal Schoen rings up 12 prescriptions worth $506.34 for Shirley B. Kindle as Vice President Al Gore watches. The Gore Presidential campaign arranged the visit to Pelton's Pharmacy om Main Street in East Hartford, Conn., to dramatize the high expenses many uninsured senior citizens face. Kindle doesn't patronize ...