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...some helpful scientific advice: When that IRS agent comes to your office to conduct an audit, offer him a cup of coffee. And when you're sitting down to do your holiday shopping online, make sure you're cradling a large glass of iced tea. The physical sensation of warmth encourages emotional warmth, while a chilly drink in hand serves as a brake on rash decisions - those are the practical lesson being drawn from recent research by two Yale-educated psychologists, published last week in Science magazine...
...Sunday Livni, a onetime Mossad agent, conceded defeat, claiming she refused to be "blackmailed" by the demands of the fringe religious parties she was trying to woo. The religious parties, she said, were making "economically and diplomatically illegitimate demands." The ultra-orthodox Shas party was charging a high fee: they want Livni to increase child allowances for large religious families and remove the city of Jerusalem from peace negotiations with the Palestinians. "I refuse to pawn Israel's future for the Prime Minister's seat," she said after meeting Peres. "The public is sick of politicking...
...contacted the league about further action. Some teams, like the Colts, have posted pictures on training room walls that warn players about staph symptoms and how to avoid contracting or spreading it. For their part, the Browns note that the team has previously used a special anti-staph agent to disinfect the locker room, weight room and other places where players gather...
...wasn’t enough star power, Sean Penn appears as the star of the movie within the movie. He’s joined by Catherine Keener as a ball-busting executive, Robin Wright Penn as Ben’s second wife, John Turturro as Willis’s agent, and Stanley Tucci as a writer trying to make a deal with Ben while seducing Ben’s ex-wife. Excluding De Niro, the rest of the star-studded cast is barely ever seen. Sean Penn is a major disappointment and only appears on screen for five minutes?...
...from what Derek White and Michael Keane imagined when they started digging up the addresses of repossessed houses to sell to Santa Barbara, Calif., real estate agents back in 1996. The idea came from White, an agent who knew the value of listing leads; the methodology, from Keane, a computer programmer, who wanted to use a new thing called the Internet. In 2000, James Saccacio, a onetime corporate banker who had been doing turnaround work, took over as CEO. "What intrigued me about the business were the natural barriers to entry," he says. "I asked people, Could someone do this...