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...Forest Tradition, despite eating only one meager meal a day and sleeping only four to six hours a night, tend to live very long lives. The tranquillity of their minds promotes longevity. Naturally, eating more food requires the body to work harder to digest it, resulting in more wear and tear on the body's organs; similarly, a tranquil mind requires little energy. Genetics plays only an indirect role, for tranquil-minded, sparely eating parents tend to raise their children to be the same. Tawit Chitsomboon Nakornratchasima, Thailand...
MEANWHILE IN SWEDEN ... Skirting the Rules His employer wouldn't let bus driver Mats Lundgren wear shorts as temperatures reached 25?C in the northern Swedish city of Umea. Lundgren's solution: he showed up to work wearing a skirt. He had found a loophole in the company's dress code that allowed drivers - regardless of gender - to wear skirts...
...only lasts [finger snap] that long"). How big can the mob movement get? Who knows? New York just had its sixth and there are plans afoot in Australia and Asia. And how will the mob project end? "Suddenly," Bill predicts, when the ideas for venues in New York wear thin. But judging by the reaction to the European ones - "I can't believe how satisfying that was," exclaimed a sweaty Phil Buckley-Mellor, 34, on his way out of the store - it looks as if we're in for an inexplicable autumn...
...welter of dialects only one written language had emerged." What about Tibetan, Uighur, Mongolian? Chang is particularly hard on the Manchus, the northern-dwelling nomads who conquered China in 1644 and established the Qing dynasty. Chang correctly notes that the Manchus required their Han subjects to wear their hair in queues. But she calls this "a badge of their humiliation"?failing to mention that the Manchus wore their hair the same way. For someone so aware of the dangers of misrepresentation, Chang ought to know better. Still, it's a testament to the power of Chang's subject that...
...AMSTERDAMS. Matt Pryor, also vocalist for The Get-Up Kids, serves as the only permanent member of this pop-punk band. After a brief tour with Guster, the band is now promoting its new album, Worse For the Wear, which will be released Tuesday. The show opens with friends Matt Pond PA and Rocky Votolato. Thursday, August 7 at 8 p.m. $12. Downstairs, The Middle East, 472 Mass...