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Lisa Scottoline is a lawyer-turned-thriller writer, with 25 million books in print in the U.S. But with her new nonfiction book, Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog (St. Martin's), Scottoline may well find herself compared to Nora Ephron. Scottoline's collection of essays from her popular Philadelphia Inquirer column, "Chick Wit," explores the female condition with a lively, original sensibility, which includes calling her former husbands Thing One and Thing Two. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Scottoline at her "girl farm" in Pennsylvania, where she lives with four dogs, two horses and two cats...
...ever get road rage? I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?' But I find myself being a little impatient if I'm not driving past other people. I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated...
...like watching guys like Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco? Do you find them entertaining? I'm about the Jerry Rices. Catch the ball, make a touchdown, drop the ball in the end zone, head back to the huddle and focus on doing your job again. I guess what we do is entertaining. But I don't have the mind that thinks, 'wow, I need to do this celebration.' It's just not what...
Volunteers for the study weren't hard to find, notes Ken Paller, professor of psychology at Northwestern University and lead author of the paper: "People are happy when they are paid to have...
...that they need an attitude adjustment. A study by the nonprofit Transportation for America in Washington, D.C., lists the most dangerous metropolitan areas for pedestrians, and the worst four just happen to be in the Sunshine State: Orlando, Tampa, Miami and Jacksonville. It may seem like an astonishing find, but it's not actually all that surprising: 490 pedestrians were killed by cars in Florida last year, the most in any state, and South Florida consistently ranks as one of the worst pockets for hit-and-run fatalities...