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A stethoscopes and blood pressure monitor on set on a rolling rolling table at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, April 8, 2020. Concierge medicine, a business model in which patients pay a membership fee to have a direct relationship with a doctor — used to feel like something just for the well-to-do. But as fees have come down and frustration with traditional primary care has gone up, concierge services are getting more attention. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Millennial Money: What’s concierge medicine? Is it worth it?
By KATE ASHFORD OF NERDWALLET
Tue,05/16/23-5:20AM , 93 Reads
My primary care doctor recently left her practice and invited me to join her at her new gig — a concierge medicine group. There, for a membership fee, I’d have better and more personal access to her services: same-day appointments and long conversations!
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South Korean adoptee Adam Crapser speaks during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 2, 2019. A court on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 ordered South Korea’s biggest adoption agency to pay 100 million won ($74,700) in damages to the 48-year-old man for mishandling his adoption as a child to the United States, where he faced legal troubles after surviving an abusive childhood before being deported in 2016. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

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South Korean court orders agency to compensate adoptee over his mishandled adoption to US
By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press
Tue,05/16/23-2:21AM , 400 Reads
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court on Tuesday ordered the country's biggest adoption agency to pay 100 million won ($74,700) in damages to a 48-year-old man for mishandling his adoption as a child to the United States, where he faced legal troubles after surviving an abusive childhood before being deported in 2016.
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People walk past an American flag inside the Oculus, part of the World Trade Center transportation hub, at the start of a work day in New York, Sept. 11, 2019. American lore is full of tales of a nation built on the foundations of individualism. In reality, loneliness in America can be deadly. In May 2023, the U.S. surgeon general declared it an epidemic, saying that it takes as deadly a toll as smoking. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

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How the American Dream convinces people loneliness is normal
By TED ANTHONY - AP National Writer
Mon,05/15/23-11:34PM , 157 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — At the end of “The Searchers,” one of John Wayne’s most renowned Westerns, a kidnapped girl has been rescued and a family reunited. As the closing music swells, Wayne's character looks around at his kin — people who have other people to lean on — and then walks off toward the dusty West Texas horizon, lonesome and alone.
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Chef Hilda Baci cooks to establish a new Guinness world record for the "longest cooking marathon", the 97-hour cook-a-thon, in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, May 11, 2023. A Nigerian chef on Monday continued her quest to set a new global record for the longest hours of nonstop cooking after surpassing the current record of 87 hours and 45 minutes. By 15:00 GMT on Monday, Hilda Baci had cooked for more than 97 hours, becoming a national sensation and to the cheering of many in Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos where her kitchen is set. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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Nigerian chef cooks nonstop for 100 hours to set new global record
By CHINEDU ASADU - Associated Press
Mon,05/15/23-11:30AM , 99 Reads
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian chef on Monday set a new global record for the longest hours nonstop cooking as she cooked for 100 hours, surpassing the current record.
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