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Having fortified himself against the cold with a few big gulps from his booze bottle Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) emerges into the winter wonderland of Buffalo, N.Y., to shovel the snow from his walk. His motivational method is simple: he tosses the bottle into a drift a few feet ahead of him, clears the white stuff from the path until he reaches his vodka, takes another bracing slug of the stuff, tosses the bottle ahead of him again and repeats his ritual. Eventually he will be fully bombed and his walk will be fully cleared. Unless, of course, hypothermia gets...
...Happier," the new nonfiction book by Lecturer on Psychology Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96—teacher of Harvard’s most popular course in the spring semester of 2006—claims to possess the knowledge necessary to live a happier, more fulfilling life. But unlike many other self-help books, "Happier" does not claim to have a quick fix, instead making a more realistic promise: by using the hardback as a workbook, one may develop the habits and attitudes that lead to happiness...
While these insights might not seem very profound, numerous self-evaluation exercises force the reader to realize that most people do not seem to apply seemingly obvious behaviors to their own lives. Ben-Shahar’s theories about becoming happier may seem like nothing new, but the exercises he includes to apply these ideas are what make "Happier"—much like Psychology 1504, "Positive Psychology"—worthwhile...
...fast, I know that. Faster than this chair was made to go.' BEN CARPENTER, 22, of Alamo, Michigan, who in a bizarre collision was pushed down a highway at speeds of up to 80 km/h after his wheelchair became lodged in the grille of a large truck...
...make the audience fall in laugh with them. Just now, they are two of a dozen or so movie comics who are giving the genre a clout it hasn't seen for decades--maybe since the great silent era of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Vince Vaughn and their jolly colleagues aren't of Chaplin's artistic stature, but they are something the industry loves (moneymakers) and the public needs (pleasure givers). Fronting hit after hit, comedy stars have taken the place of those Hollywood stalwarts, the action stars...