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...survey of 166,574 Americans, researchers found that in the late 1990s, adults in the U.S. felt "sad, blue or depressed" an average of three days a month. Women and young adults were more prone to funks than men or seniors. Down days were associated with bad habits (smoking, physical inactivity) and tough circumstances (poverty, unemployment). Underweight subjects, however, had almost twice as many blue days as those who were overweight...
...can’t fill its aerobics classes suggests that there are fewer women—at least those who could afford pricey NYSC memberships. And actually, while Wall Street women may think green like their male counterparts, they make 80 cents for every dollar paid to men. The sad reality is that women are only 15.7 percent of corporate officers of Fortune 500 companies and 5.2 percent of executives who earn the top five salaries of their companies...
...live outside the enclosure, look after the church and do the monastery's shopping.) But the nuns are only ever a bell's toll away from prayer. It's what brought Sister Maria to the community as an 18-year-old in 1971. "I think it's very sad these days," she says. "People are distracted by all the noise and the bustle that's going on out there...
...SAD STORY: The report is a riveting - and dispiriting - read...
...fact that I am no longer the spokesman for Slim-Fast makes me sad, but not as sad as someone trying to punish me for exercising my right as an American to speak my mind." WHOOPI GOLDBERG, on the fallout from her off-color remarks about President Bush at a Democratic fund raiser...