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...though routine is the wrong word for anything he did - in which he deliberately set out to bore and bewilder his audiences, just to see what would happen. In one he went onstage and simply read aloud from The Great Gatsby. While everyone waited for the joke, the punch line, the something, the anything, he just kept reading. (See pictures of the Kazakhstan Borat didn't depict...
...psychologists at an average age of 65. Once again, there was a correlation between longevity and positive emotions, but in the newer study the relationship held only for "active" expressions of emotion, such as "excited," "thrilled" and "delighted" as opposed to passive emotions like "pleased" and "calm." Falling in line with other recent social research in the elderly, the analysis found that language indicating strong social relationships was powerfully associated with longer life. (See how to prevent illness...
...achievement, described in the journal Stem Cells and Development, comes just 11 years after the first human-embryonic-stem-cell line was created - an eyeblink in scientific terms - in the lab of James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...windows). They have two cottages - both also with bright orange doors - at the end of the driveway. One is a type of sauna with a wood-burning stove. The other is a smoke shack for fish. Their catch of the day is hanging from a clothing line strung from the shack to a tree. The driveway is littered with boots, gray-and-red-tipped fishing socks, waders, scooters, tricycles and a green yoga ball with bunny ears for kids to bounce on. On an opposite line, fishing gear is being hung out to dry. Two cars bear McCain/Palin stickers...
...health care? And health care too. I remember certainly on the campaign trail, John McCain and his ideas - basically, bottom line, allowing businesses to afford to pay for health care, to provide health care and to give employees options, and Obama scoffed at that. His campaign thought that that was ridiculous. It's funny now to hear him kind of go to some of John McCain's ideas. John McCain had some good ideas about bolstering the economy through businesses so that families could afford to pay for health care and making sure that no one was falling through...