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...ba href=/sleep/a/b, play baseball, golf and hang out with my kids — not in that order." He doesn't mention his impending divorce, but golf has always been a way for him to take a mental vacation from stress.

He played 45 holes a day the week before spring training, and every day he can since camp opened.

He hated the sport growing up, thinking it was for "non-athletes," he says.

In the minors, Smoltz needed to keep his mind busy during the downtime between starts.

One of his first shots was a 5-iron from 165 yards, in the hole.

"Every day it's different," he says.

"Every day could be the day.

I like that part of it.

It's you against Mother Nature and the course.

It's a test of your choke value." Basically self-taught, Smoltz has a smooth swing that launches drives between 290 yards to 310 yards.

He always plays the "tips" — the longest yardage — which today is 7,154 yards (the Tom Watson-designed course is rated a tough 74.7 with a slope of 140).

He is a master in tricky situations, and nails a wood shot from a scrubby fairway bunker.

"My sport is so mechanical that when I play golf, I can't get too mechanical," Smoltz says.

"I can't worry about where my hands are and my swing is.

I can't translate that from baseball.

I literally just play golf and don't think about it." No one hangs up now Just like he is on the mound, he doesn't overpower, and he rarely misses.

He ends up with a 1-under-par 71 (five birdies, two bogeys, one double, 10 pars).

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The director said the CDC is trying to rebalance health priorities, noting that only about 3 percent of its budget is now spent on prevention.

Rather than separate, compartmentalized programs on specific diseases and ailments, she said a "more holistic approach" makes sense.

"People are more than the sum of their diseases and body parts," she noted.

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...ba href=/sleep/a/b here if I didn't have a family to go home to," said Briens, owner of the cafe, which opened last summer.

"I love it."Family is obviously very important to Briens, who chose to open her cafe June 21 to commemorate her grandfather, who died on that day in 1989.Along the golden walls, Briens' own photos are displayed.

One is of Mont St.

Michel monastery when the tide is out and a herd of sheep graze on the fertile land below; another is of the medieval fortress of Rocmanadour in the Dordogne region of southeastern France.

Two big prints behind the pastry case feature 3-year-old Logan, the son of Briens and her husband, John Chambers, seated next to his little cousin.

Others showcase Isabelle's father-in-law, Stan Chambers, a longtime Los Angeles newscaster.A native of Versailles, France, Briens came to work at her cousin Eric Briens' Del Mar French Pastry Cafe 11 years ago before he sold the successful enterprise in 2002.

The cousins still keep in close contact, and Eric Briens, who now owns the Carlsbad French Pastry Cafe in Carlsbad Village, has given his cousin all his recipes for croissants and breakfast pastries.

The French baguettes are provided daily by Jean Claude Scudellaro, a local French baker.On the menu is a full selection of breakfast pastries including croissants, muffins, biscotti, Danishes and apple turnovers, just to name a few.

Also listed are a choice of omelettes, French toast, salads, quiche and salads.

Briens' most popular breakfast entree is the Mon...