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TODAY - April 26, 2010
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Workers in these careers face erratic hours and
even life-or-death situations.
Five (SIX) worst-ranked professions
America’s Most Stressful Jobs 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
provided by
CNBC
With unemployment high, many people with jobs are grateful to get their weekly paychecks, but that feeling alone doesn’t take the stress out of the daily grind.
To get a […]
Will wonders never cease?
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Friday, November 7, 2008; 12:00 AM
FRIDAY, Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) — Bullies may actually enjoy the pain they cause others, a new study using brain scans suggests.
The part of the brain associated with reward lights up when an aggressive teen watches a video of someone hurting another person, but not when […]
New Test Shows If You Are a Shopaholic
Jeanna Bryner
Senior Writer
LiveScience.com Mon Sep 22, 8:16 AM ET
A new shopaholic test could tell if you should you leave your credit card at home when heading out to the mall.
The test makes it clear that there’s shopping and then there’s over-the-top purchasing that can wreak havoc on a […]
Obviously, child abuse is no laughing matter, but
I think this headline writer could have been more careful.
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Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:02pm EST
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Parents who teach “tough love” by disciplining their children with spankings could be making them more likely to have sexual problems as teenagers and adults, a leading researcher said.
Image: […]
Hopefully, it’s a declining “niche market.”
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This ranks with other twists in the fabric of history:
Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert was present at both President Garfield’s and President McKinley’s assassinations.
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King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm and Czar Nicholas were cousins and still found reason to […]
So what?!
Stalin had not thought Hitler to have been crazy enough to open
a second front by invading the Soviet Union in 1941.
Life would be a lot more difficult if one had always to consider another party’s acting in an irrationally self-destructive manner.
1. How long before the plaintiff appeals because his attorney was weak?
2. What is the time frame for the plaintiff to find a literary agent to market a possible book?
3. When will a local television producer announce a proposed and warmly received concept for a made-for-tv movie?
4. How soon before the plaintiff begins to make […]
or is this another example of “Il pesce puzza dalla testa”?
Indeed, the rotting fish stinks from the head, but I see yet another layer of putrescence in this story. The brass seems to be telling their soldiers to stop complaining, quit while they’re ahead or they may find themselves branded as enemy combatants.
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The […]
planes of existence in order to find more topics
with which to bore their acquaintances.
Belief in reincarnation tied to memory errors
Tendency could explain why some cling to implausible reincarnation claims
Updated: 12:53 p.m. ET April 6, 2007
People who believe they have lived past lives as, say, Indian princesses or battlefield commanders are more likely to make […]