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...friend, I’m currently undergoing a personal crisis and will be unable to respond to e-mail until my meds kick in and/or the ad board asks me to take a semester off to prevent a complete breakdown” really saves a lot of time and stress on your part, not to mention generating some sympathy, goodwill, and possibly flowers from your acquaintances.Other added benefits of this truly economic e-mail system include a chat feature (which can be disabled to prevent unwanted contact with tech-savvy TFs), automatic spam filtering, nearly unlimited storage capacity...
...those who follow Indian business, and many will stress Mittal's global links. "Mittal is not really Indian. He's floating somewhere above India Inc.," says James Winterbotham, founder of London-based merger consultant India Advisory Partners. But in one sense, he is very Indian indeed, for a host of companies from the subcontinent are now getting into the global game. Even excluding the Mittal-Arcelor deal and the pending bid by Tata Group for Corus, data compiled by Winterbotham's firm shows that Indian companies spent about $6.5 billion on international acquisitions in 2006, almost triple the volume...
According to educational psychologist Carol Gilligan, mothers tend to stress sympathy, grace and care to their children, while fathers accent justice, fairness and duty. Moms give a child a sense of hopefulness; dads provide a sense of right and wrong and its consequences. Other researchers have determined that boys are not born with an understanding of "maleness." They have to learn it, ideally from their fathers...
...according to a Harvard researcher who found that under-trained runners who take on the 26.2-mile challenge are putting their hearts at risk. Individuals who trained for 35 miles per week or less before running a marathon exhibited temporary changes in both cardiac function and biochemistry indicating heart stress, according to the study by Harvard Medical School Instructor Malissa J. Wood. “The average person who runs is not doing themselves any favors by under-training for the marathon,” Wood said. Wood’s study tracked the hearts of 60 marathoners using echocardiography...
Call me a purist, but as Christmas approaches, it's worth noting that the ancient and traditional idea of a holiday did not include attempted murders over PlayStation 3 or CNN advisories on how to beat "holiday stress." According to anthropologists, human festivities--probably going back to the Paleolithic era--featured the universal ingredients of feasting, dancing, costuming, masking and/ or face painting, for days at a time. These things didn't happen indoors, within the family circle, but around bonfires, in the streets or on the "dancing grounds" of prehistoric civilizations. Holidays bonded whole communities together, not just families...