Word: mins
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...shared in the pain of a bad joke, but can a good laugh help the heart? Watching 15- to 30-min. clips of comedies--one used by researchers was There's Something About Mary--increased blood flow to the heart up to 50%, compared with, say, the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan. Watching a funny film was like a jolt of aerobic activity; a sad film triggered the same vascular response as doing a math problem or remembering an incident that made one angry...
...small Kentucky town into sprawling Louisville made her a "very paranoid" mother-- so much so that she won't let her kids play in the front yard unless she's with them. But she willingly puts Joe, 8, and Julianna, 6, on a bus every day for the 75-min. ride to a school in a rundown, mostly black neighborhood. The bus picks her kids up in their mostly white suburb at 7:30 a.m. and doesn't bring them back until 5 p.m. "It was a very hard thing to put my baby girl...
...come see it. And luckily for Zwick, it's the kind of tale that draws in actors looking for an Important Subject. "There was something really authentic about the story," says DiCaprio, who agreed to play mercenary Danny Archer after meeting twice with Zwick and watching a 4-min. DVD featuring child soldiers and the aftermath of their battles that the director had patched together. Before shooting began, DiCaprio spent a month in South Africa meeting former mercenaries, undergoing military training and learning the local accent. Although he talked with several ex-mercs and diamond experts, it was a military...
...remains unclear whether Benedict was deliberately trying to raise the temperature. Many analysts, especially in Rome, think he knew exactly what he was saying and regard the Islamic section of the 35-min. speech as a brave and eloquent warning of Islam's inherent violence and of a faithless West's inability to offer moral response. Yet Benedict's argument was slapdash and flawed. His sage, Ibn Hazm, turned out to have belonged to a school with no current adherents, and although reason's primacy is debated in Islam, it is very much part of the culture that developed algebra...
...Beazley makes a terrific 10-min. speech, whatever the occasion. But once he passes the 15-min. mark, it's even money that he'll flop. The more he warms to his subject, the less he seems aware of the audience; the old habits of a lecturer hobble him, especially on defense and military history. But there is a new side to the man. He's always been avuncular (which weakened him as a leader in some eyes). Now he's taking that image a step further by appearing more intimate and less self-conscious about addressing what politicians usually...