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Horoscope: Friday, July 24

Friday, July 24 As your expectations become your everyday reality, you’ll find yourself eating, sleeping, working, loving and living better. Aries (March 21-April 19) Different interpretations begin to converge. Now people can coordinate their efforts and move forward together. Cooperation will get a little easier each day from here because everyone is working from the same understanding. Taurus (April 20-May 20) Many people enter new social situations trying to fit in. You’ll have more success letting people discover who you already are. Genuine connections form faster when ...

High CAC score frightens man

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a 76-year-old Caucasian male who’s in excellent health. (Or so I thought.) Recently, my cardiologist suggested a coronary artery calcium (CAC) test, and my score was a frightening 1,241! I’m now extremely concerned about my heart health. I’ve been extremely active all my life, and I routinely work out — about 10 hours per week. My resting heart rate is about 50 bpm, and my blood pressure has long been about 110/70 mm Hg. Once or twice a week, I’ll raise my heart rate to a measured 162 bpm during a HIIT (high-intensity interval training) workout and feel ...

Concerned about daughter dating abusive alcoholic

Dear Annie: My daughter is dating a man who’s an alcoholic and drug addict. Over the past three years, the police have been called multiple times because he’s abused her. She has two children, 8 and 15, who live with her. I’ve tried to talk some sense into her, but she always defends him and even interferes with his arrests. Thankfully, the court stepped in, and he was sentenced to six months in jail for the abuse. Now my daughter wants nothing to do with me and won’t let me see my grandchildren. When I call, she says they don’t want to talk to me and tells me to leave them ...

Education can still be fixed

Amid celebrations of our nation’s 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation’s core institutions. “Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low,” reports Gallup. Of 14 core institutions — banks, big business, labor, the presidency, Congress, schools, health care, etc. — only 27% say they have “a great deal/quite a lot of confidence,” one point above the all-time low for this average. In 1979, the percent expressing “a great deal/quite a lot of confidence” in these 14 core institutions stood at ...

Social media in need of a learner’s permit

Young people entering the workplace need to learn how to navigate the muddy waters of social media. They need to learn how to use it for marketing and sharing crucial information. They need to know when to court interaction and when to act as background. They need to understand that literacy isn’t just about Jane Austen and that bullying can happen online as well as in the school cafeteria. That becomes a priority as Pennsylvania puts in place new requirements for schools to teach about the mental, psychological and even physical effects of our digital world. The new laws, which ...

The bottom 1 percent we rarely discuss

America spends an extraordinary amount of time debating the top 1% — the billionaires, corporate CEOs and hedge fund managers — and the widening gap between the rich and everyone else. It is an important conversation in a nation that prizes both opportunity and free enterprise. But there is another 1% we talk about far too little. Not the poor. Not the single mother working two jobs. Not the veteran struggling to find his footing. Not the family living paycheck to paycheck. Poverty is not a moral failing, and millions of Americans with modest means are among our country’s ...