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...longer officially called the Overlooked, but Ebertfest. Some filmmakers demurred at having their films seem "prematurely overlooked." This year, Begging Naked doesn't yet have distribution. And the fest will be one of the few places to ever see a restored 70mm print of Baraka...
...what effect does your personality have on your longevity? Do some kinds of temperaments lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality traits of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100. (The study chose the offspring of centenarians because they are easier to follow over time than the very aged since they don't die as often before follow-up interviews can be conducted. Also, children of those who live to 100 are themselves likelier to live longer.) (See pictures...
Interestingly, however, other traits that you might consider advantageous had no impact in this study on whether participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old (which might explain the long life of the smoking French lady). Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those cantankerous old people who are fixed in their ways...
...want to keep a steady flow of business, they have good reason to overrate securities and make their customers—the issuers—happy. Indeed, rating agencies in the past have given collaborative feedback to issuers to such an extent, some argue, that their ratings were no longer objective...
...elements within CIA headquarters still believed he was withholding information ... At the direction of CIA Headquarters, interrogators therefore used the waterboard one more time on Zubaydah. . . . [I]n the Zubaydah example, CIA Headquarters dispatched officials to observe the last waterboard session. These officials reported that enhanced techniques were no longer needed...