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...women's lifestyle doesn't explain their longevity, what does? While the study was not designed to tease out specific factors, Tindle proposes several potential explanations, which she hopes to validate in further trials: optimistic people have more friends and a larger social network on which they can rely during crises; they also tend to cope better on their own with stress, a risk factor that has been associated with high blood pressure, heart disease and early death in previous studies. It isn't entirely clear how optimists manage stress so well, but it may have something to do with...
...what you’re talking about, you never played.”But Rosenfeld believes that thinking about sports quantitatively simply adds a new perspective.“It’s really just people who love the game like everyone else but are trying to add a factor in there to add an edge,” he says.And to those who claim that focusing so intently on statistical analysis detracts from the more lyrical aspects of athletics, Harvard Professor of Statistics and Faculty Advisor to HSAC Carl Morris provides a response.“I feel that...
...value of Chinese food exports has expanded by a factor of nearly 6 over the past two decades, from $4.5 billion in 1986 to $25.7 billion in 2006, and governments around the world are demanding that Beijing boost the safety of what it produces. In 2006, after more than 100 people died in Panama upon consuming cough medicine that contained toxic diethylene glycol from China, the mainland's food- and product-safety problems became an international concern. Adulterated wheat gluten from China was blamed for the death of thousands of pets in North America in 2007. That year...
...many badly battered, is not an easy one. Stocks are cheaper, but their investment portfolios are likely thinner. Eric Bjorgen, an analyst at Leuthold Group in Minneapolis, notes that in face of low prices but a very uncertain near-term future, an investor's patience should be the determining factor: "This is a market only for those with a multiyear time horizon...
...words, pretty dreary. Wear a watch, so you'll have something else to look at occasionally and can gauge the length of your nap. The trailers before the movie, for Ice Age and Up and Monsters vs. Aliens were all also in 3D. After they're done, the entertainment factor drops precipitously...