Emily Coakley

Most Recent Articles by Emily Coakley

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  Happy Birthday, Barbie, Doll of 1,000 Careers and Outfits
  It's been more than 50 years since the blond-haired, blue-eyed, impossibly proportioned Barbie doll hit the market. She's held many jobs, lived in many homes, driven several cars and weathered her share of criticism, but she remains an extremely popular toy.
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  Happy Birthday, Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), Author of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
  Rev. Charles L. Dodgson was a man of the church, a mathematician, photographer, poet and author of the most famous children’s stories in Victorian England. Writing under the pen name Lewis Carroll, he turned his lifelong love of entertaining children into a set of books that are still read today.
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  5 Sites to Help You Quit Smoking
  Smoking is one of the toughest addictions to break; if you smoke, that isn’t news. What might be news, though, is that the Web has some great sites that explain why you smoke and the best ways to stop. These sites even include advice for nonsmokers who are trying to encourage others who have quit.
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  Ann Dunwoody, First Woman to Become a Four-Star General in the US Armed Forces
  In November 2008, Ann Dunwoody became the first female four-star general in the United States military. Her promotion has been described as breaking “the brass ceiling” of the armed forces.
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  Autoimmune Diseases Affect Millions
  Karla Lindula of Seattle woke up one day with such severe pain in her hands that she couldn’t hold a hairbrush. “There was no warning for this. It came on suddenly and unexpectedly. Over the course of two to three weeks, it worsened and I went into the doctor’s to get checked out,” Lindula said. Tests indicated she had lupus, an autoimmune disease. After a year of treatment, her doctors determined she actually had a different autoimmune disease, rheumatoid arthritis.