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...Lara Naqushibandi (H) ded. Kristi Carlin...
...This comix novella will appeal to bearded humanities professors and beer-ded guys in the bleachers alike. Its specialness hits you on the first page. A mock poster advertises a (fictional) all-Jewish baseball team, The Stars of David. Narrated by the Stars' manager, Noah "The Zion Lion" Strauss, the story takes place during the 1920s and the days of barnstorming minor leagues - back when the game had a bit more vaudeville and bit less Hollywood...
...Apparently some people have. A recently published study by researchers at the University of California in San Diego has suggested that people with "cooler" initials--such as ACE, JOY, WOW or GOD--might actually live longer than people with more negative ones, like BUM, UGH, ILL, PIG, ASS or DED. The study looked at five million California death certificates and singled out 3,487 men (whose names are less likely to change over a lifetime). The study included 2,287 men with decidedly negative monograms and 1,200 WINners and VIP-types...
...average, those who were ILL or DED died 2.8 years earlier than a control group, while the GODly lived an average of 4.48 years longer. Of the JOYful, 0.5 percent died in suicides and 2.5 percent in accidents, while 3.5 percent of the BUMlike took their own lives and 6 percent died in accidents...
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