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...haven’t been playing well since I’ve been injured,” Wang said. “For me personally having a win under my belt and playing as well as I did…it’s just a huge confidence booster personally...
Another happiness booster, say positive psychologists, is performing acts of altruism or kindness--visiting a nursing home, helping a friend's child with homework, mowing a neighbor's lawn, writing a letter to a grandparent. Doing five kind acts a week, especially all in a single day, gave a measurable boost to Lyubomirsky's subjects...
Lansing sees studios gravitating toward emotional stories in 2005 and '06 and away from whizbang effects movies. She's also a big booster of comedies. "When you're worried the world is going to blow up, you want to escape and see something that's funny," she says. "That doesn't mean we're not going to make serious films, but we're living in nervous times, and people want to laugh." --By Jeffrey Ressner
...addition, the $70 vaccine lasts only a few years, and DeMaria said additional booster shots are not recommended because they make people more susceptible to contracting the disease...
...stump. For those tricky situations that only a peer would know how to navigate, Kerry turns to his closest Senate colleagues. Chief among them is Kennedy, who not only recommended his chief of staff Cahill to put the campaign back on course but also has been a tireless booster and fund raiser. Former Senator Max Cleland of Georgia, a fellow Vietnam veteran and a triple amputee from that war, has become one of the candidate's most stalwart campaigners, validating Kerry's service and fueling the veteran-outreach operation that helped put Kerry over the top in Iowa...