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Magellan Health Services, Inc., the nation's leading manager of behavioral health care, hosted former First Lady Rosalynn Carter at the company's annual conference of its clinical and medical leadership team held in Atlanta earlier this week. Carter, who for nearly 40 years has been a driving force in advocating for mental health care education and reform, offered her views on the state of mental health care in the United States. Through her work at The Carter Center--a not-for-profit...

U.S. music producer John Carter Cash has written his first children's book, "Momma Loves Her Little Son," Little Simon Inspirations announced. Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, announced plans Thursday to publish the book by the only son of late music icons Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. The story is based on words Cash's mother shared with him as a child, the publishers said. The picture book, illustrated in Americana art style by Marc Burckhardt, is...

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Little Simon Inspirations, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, today announced plans to publish the first children's book by author and five-time Grammy-winning music producer John Carter Cash. The only son of music legends Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, John Carter Cash shares a lyrical story based on the intimate words his mother shared with him as a child in Momma Loves Her Little Son, to be published in March 2009. Illustrated in...

Lil Wayne's publicist has confirmed the U.S. rapper has welcomed a new son. Dwayne Carter III was born Wednesday afternoon at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, the hip-hop artist's representative told Usmagazine.com. The identity of the child's mother has not been made public, the celebrity magazine said. "I got a son about to be born any day now, so shout-out to him. Pray for me," Lil Wayne said as he collected his Lyricist of the Year prize at Sunday's BET Hip-Hop Awards. Wikipedia said...

The edict came down before our dear friend's shower. She's having a green baby.In addition to gaining an adorable round belly, she has also sprouted a social consciousness that's warning her of any potential harm/poison/discomfort aimed at Baby Doe. Part of this is surely budding maternal instincts. Part of this is . . . frankly, we're just not sure. It's hard to imagine our Ralph-Lauren dressing, blond-highlight wearing, always-polished and just-so pal jumping into a hemp gunny sack and...

Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, Northern Stage Until October 11, 2008, Box Office (0191) 230 5151. I WAS first introduced to Angela Carter as a teenager by watching the film of The Company of Wolves. Here Little Red Riding Hood, one of the short stories from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, was turned on its head into a young girl's journey into adulthood. Carter's subversive take on traditional folklore has captivated many an English undergraduate. Her familiar childhood...

By Catherine Edman cedman@@dailyherald.com Carefully outstretching their right hands - as if they'd just been consecrated - two girls excitedly walked away from their brush with celebrity. Will those hands ever get a washing, a reporter asked one of the teens. "Eventually," 15-year-old Andrea Sperry said, flashing an ear- to- ear smile. The pair emerged from a group of Glenbard East High School students who encircled astronaut Dan Tani after his visit Tuesday to the Lombard school to talk...

For the second time in a decade Academy Award(R) winning producer June Beallor has produced and directed a slew of high profile films for the Democratic National Convention with a film featured almost every night of the political confab; among them the opening night film for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, President Jimmy Carter's New Orleans profile, Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Biden's introduction film and the closing night tribute film to Martin Luther King, Jr., to air on the exact...

By Savannah Morning News, Ga. Jul. 28--OGLETHORPE -- President Carter has spent his golden years as a global humanitarian: a Nobel laureate pushing for peace in the Middle East, speaking out against the war in Iraq and battling to eradicate deadly diseases in Africa and Asia. So the stage was a little smaller than he's used to when the 83-year-old stood before a squeaky microphone in the farming hamlet of Oglethorpe, assailing a plan to build three dams to provide water for...

By John Merline Twenty-nine years ago this July, President Carter issued a dire warning. The United States, he said, faced a "fundamental threat to American democracy" and a "crisis of confidence." The reason for this terrible state of affairs? An energy crisis gripping the nation that Carter said threatened "the very security of our nation." It wasn't the first time Carter warned about an energy crisis. In previous speeches, he had called it the "moral equivalent of war" and urged people...