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After getting a stage four metastatic colon cancer diagnosis, this 92-year-old immediately began planning to do his favorite things for the last time, including one more meal at the beloved Lower East Side institution Katz’s Delicatessen. “This pilgrimage to the temple of pastrami was among a handful of items on the bucket list that my father, Rabbi Israel S. Dresner, drew up within 24 hours of the doctors telling him last month that he would not make it to his 93rd birthday in April,” wrote Avi Dresner to in a moving essay about the recent bittersweet afternoon he brought his...

MONTGOMERY - Most Alabama voters have confidence in the U.S. military, Fox cable TV news and the Red Cross, but their confidence in many national institutions, except the military, is falling, a statewide poll shows. The Capital Survey Research Center, a division of the Alabama Education Association teachers lobby, surveyed 453 registered voters by phone March 7-8 and 12-15. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percentage points. The poll, when compared to similar polls done by the center in June 2003 and April 1999, shows that Alabama voters have less confidence in many national...