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...than family ties, may increase its value. "Friendship contributes more to people's happiness in old age than their family relationships do," says Rebecca Adams, sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. "If we don't like our friends, we terminate the relationships or let them fade, so the ones we're left with are often fairly positive compared with family relationships, which we can't terminate." Furthermore, we tend to feel more gratitude for a friend's kindness than for a relative's. "If a family member comes over to help us when we're sick...
After hitting sophomore wide receiver Carl Morris with a 10-yard strike up the middle to give the Crimson a first down at the Columbia 29-yard line, Rose faked a handoff to sophomore running back Nick Palazzo and rolled into open space. He hit Taylor on a fade to the right corner of the end zone, giving Harvard the lead for good at 12:10 in the first quarter...
...fade to close-up of children's faces with slogan superimposed...
ALLEN IVERSON Hoopster-rapper agrees to fade out offensive lyrics. Caution: people may expect talent...
...United States, and chances are that none will have any significant impact on the current crisis. If the crisis evolves into a war, the United Nations will appear to have gone the ineffectual way of its predecessor, the League of Nations. Or, if this crisis diffuses, these resolutions will fade into the collective amnesia of the global society--and the actions that a majority of the world's countries called for will be dutifully ignored...