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...That's the lesson from a large study of death rates in optimistic vs. pessimistic women, conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. Using data from the Women's Health Initiative, an ongoing government study of more than 100,000 women over age 50 that began in 1994, the team found that eight years into the study, optimistic women were 14% more likely to be alive than their pessimistic peers. (See pictures of women around the world...
...there's nothing quite like the image of your child on a registry of sex offenders to concentrate the parental mind. It now has a catchy new label, but "sexting" has been around, as a prank and a problem, for years: in 2004 a 15-year-old Pittsburgh, Pa., girl was charged with sexual abuse of children and dissemination of child pornography when she posted nude pictures of herself online. This seemed like a confounding twist in prosecutorial philosophy, since the victim and the villain in this case were the same child. But just in the past year, more than...
...Started out in Pittsburgh, where he became a Top 40 music DJ and went by the name Jeff Christie. He turned political in Sacramento, Calif. by creating a politically incorrect persona called El Rushbo, then moved to New York and went national on WABC...
...Wrote a list of "35 Undeniable Truths" in 1988 that included statements such as "Abortion is wrong," "There is a God" and "The greatest football team in the history of civilization is the Pittsburgh Steelers...
...Mike Aquilina, who attends Holy Child Church outside Pittsburgh, Pa., estimates that he fulfills the requirements for an indulgence a few times a year by visiting a saintly burial site Stateside or St. Peter's Basilica when he's in Rome on business. "God doesn't get anything out of it, the Church doesn't get anything out of it - but I sure do," says Aquilina...