Interview with Dr. Mary K. Barnhart, head of breast cancer surgery at Adventist Health.

The Seattle Times notes high-tech workers and Seventh-day Adventist influence in the emerging vegetarian culture of the Pacific Northwest.

The Baltimore Sun reports:

Baltimore neurosurgeon Benjamin S. Carson said he was "humbled" when President Bush draped the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, around his neck yesterday.

But such accolades are routine for the doctor who persevered through a childhood of poverty and urban violence to become the youngest department head at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a benefactor distributing thousands of scholarship dollars each year.

A recent book, published by National Geographic, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest, is getting a fair amount of media attention as it continues the meme that Loma Linda has lots of "long-lived" and very healthy folks.