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Then the women step up for their turn with the instructor to practice their newly-learned skill. As they approach the pad-wielding instructor, smiles fall off their faces, jokes of “kicking ass” fade away, and they focus on the task at hand...
...smile doesn’t fade as he quietly explains how he has to keep the turtle hidden and Timmy, a first-grader, quiet. Those are the rules of living in your mother’s ex-boyfriend’s apartment...
RESISTANCE WOULD FADE QUICKLY...
Researchers who have examined cross-sex friendship say that any initial sexual tension tends to fade over time or become irrelevant. "If a friendship is going to become romantic, studies show it usually does so in the beginning," says Heidi Reeder, a professor of communication at Idaho's Boise State University. "The longer the friendship lasts, the more likely each person is to see the other as a friend." (One study, however, suggests that at around the two-year mark, platonic friends often reconsider their romantic options.) Moreover, Augenblick's friend-spark idea has a basis in academic theory. According...
...other leaders, hasn't budged. If anything, politicians in Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic say, the suicide attack strengthened their resolve. The first of 400 Danish soldiers sent to Iraq in July was killed last month, but Denmark has no plans to remove its forces. That determination could fade if Iraq claims large numbers of European lives. The day after an attack on Czech vehicles on Aug. 10, Czech Defense Minister Miroslav Kostelka said, "If the situation were suddenly and sharply to worsen, it is possible that measures would be taken that would involve at least some...