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...Joint injuries earlier life - even in childhood - tend to set people up for arthritis, especially if the injuries aren't treated correctly. "Even a bad ankle sprain could raise the risk of osteoarthritis," says Buckwalter. He therefore advises getting the best possible care after injuring a joint. This can be as basic as resting and icing a sprained ankle or knee and then resuming activity gradually and carefully, starting out with physical therapy, if necessary. "If you have joint injury, make sure that you select activities that don't increase risk. You want to avoid repetitive twisting and pounding...
...warm and fuzzy. East Asian cultures, he finds, report lower levels of individual happiness, which researchers chalk up to the overriding value placed on social harmony, while Americans "are guilty of inflating our contentment to impress." Married people and optimists are happier than singles and pessimists, women and men tend to be equally happy, and everyone is least happy on the way to work...
...even those closer with their advisers find the competing demands of research obligations and a doctoral dissertation deadline inhibitive, and thus tend to come back to work before they say they’re ready...
...initiative is the result of years of exit interviews, according to education professor Richard J. Light, that have revealed that while many students report having had a fulfilling experience at Harvard, they also tend to feel that they missed the opportunity to discuss aspects of student life in an informal setting...
...Philadelphia, with a large African-American electorate, and may win in the city's suburbs, which have the same kinds of upscale, well-educated professionals that have gone for Obama in recent contests. Western and Central Pennsylvania are much more conservative, blue-collar and Catholic, and the voters tend to be a bit older, all of which seem to favor Clinton. The key battleground is likely to be in the Lehigh Valley and the Northeast, toward Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, where traditional blue-collar industry is giving way to high-tech...