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...looking for another reason to hate on France, you might check out the latest report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. According to the Paris-based group, the French spend twice as much time enjoying meals each day than most Americans, and get nearly an hour's more sleep each night than most Japanese (who averaged just 7.8 hours of shut-eye). The study, which is based on government data and Gallup polls from 18 of the OECD's member countries, includes a broad spectrum of "social indicators" - from education spending and fertility rates to adult height...
...Eating, Sleeping and Leisure: "Americans spend around an hour and a quarter eating every day, slightly more than only Canadians and Mexicans but less than half the eating time spent by the French. Despite this limited time spent eating, their obesity rates are the highest in the OECD." (That's ten times the rate in South Korea, mind you). "Spain reports the highest proportion of leisure time spent doing regular physical activities. Even there, exercise accounts for a mere 13% of leisure time. ... Italian men have nearly 80 minutes a day of leisure more than women. Much of the additional...
...affinity with her as he did with all his fellow patients, who egged each other on with calls to keep fighting. But she slipped away and became a reminder about how bad things could get. "It was the darkest moment I have ever had," says Bonilla, who would spend five days in the hospital. "I just tried to think about better times, about my wife and children, to give me the strength...
...Click here for 10 ideas on how you can spend your refund for solid financial and happiness returns...
...Cynthia Wahl, recently laid off from the Telegram, also blogs at mom2mom. She had hoped to spend some time exploring business leads for a new future when she got word that her 14-year-old's middle school was shutting down after a confirmed case of swine flu. The prospect of the whole family being home all day - her husband works at home, too - was "kinda crazy," Wahl says, though she looked forward to some "quality time" with her sons. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...