Word: comfortes
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...virtual restaurant with an animated date, literally. Both parties work keyboards and save thousands of calories on the five-course Italian dinner. You can survive some of the more awkward first date moments, such as ordering the high-ticket item on the menu, without abandoning the comfort of your pajamas. Animated figures called avatars stand in and react like you would when the waiter dumps hot soup into your virtual lap. The avatars move, speak, and even kiss goodnight...
Were Iraqi Shi'ites really an Iranian fifth column, all this might be cold comfort. But the truth is more complicated. Though many Sunnis won't admit it, Iraqi nationalism runs deep among their long-repressed countrymen. As historian Reidar Visser has observed, Iraq's Shi'ites have never launched a broad-based movement to secede. When Baghdad and Tehran went to war in the 1980s, Iraq's Shi'ite soldiers fought fiercely, especially after Iranian forces crossed onto Iraqi soil. It's true that one major Shi'ite party, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa, took refuge...
...Matthews Hall, I started to believe the mantras I was mentally repeating in my head. By the time I rounded the corner to Grays, I felt better about my body than I had all semester. The three minutes it took to circle the Yard were a rare moment of comfort in my own skin...
...pricey? One-third of our lives is spent lying in bed, says Carlos H. Schenck, a staff psychiatrist at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center and the author of Sleep: The Mysteries, the Problems and the Solutions. "How important is your sleep?" he asks. "If you like the comfort and quality of natural latex, it may be a very cost-effective investment...
...were closed and her prospective height reduced about 13 in., to 4 ft. 5 in. "Ashley's smaller and lighter size," her parents write on the blog defending their decision, "makes it more possible to include her in the typical family life and activities that provide her with needed comfort, closeness, security and love: meal time, car trips, touch, snuggles, etc." They stress that the goal was "to improve our daughter's quality of life and not to convenience her caregivers...