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Spacing Siblings At Least Two Years Apart Makes Kids Smarter
- Home & Family
- November 28, 2011
Everyone has their own opinions on how many years apart in age children should be to create the optimal situation for the kids as they grow-up together and as they develop separately. Up until now, those opinions have just been conjecture, but Kasey Buckles, assistant Professor at Notre Dame, has used scientific reasoning to determine
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Finding Your Happiness with Chicken Soup for the Soul
- Entertainment, Books & Humor
- November 25, 2011
The new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Happiness, discusses the root of personal happiness and explains how important it is for everyone to find their own happiness-triggers. These triggers could be hobbies, helping others, or any other activity that brings you to a state of joy. Inside Edition, 11/22/2011
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The power of nostalgia at Thanksgiving
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- November 24, 2011
According to nutritional psychologists and researchers at the University of Southampton, nostalgia (as experienced at Thanksgiving) fills a very important need to belong and feel socially connected, and is actually good for our mental health.
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It’s Time to Say Goodbye to All That Stuff
- Entertainment, Books & Humor
- November 24, 2011
Jane Brody discusses the new book, The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life, which she recommends for anyone coping with a cluttering problem, and summarizes some of the de-cluttering methods she's found most useful. The author of the book discussed is Robin Zasio, a clinical psychologist, star of the show
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Sole Survivors: Adult Orphans Preserve, Adapt Traditions
- Home & Family
- November 24, 2011
Melinda Beck looks at "adult orphans" who have lost both their parents and their siblings, making them the last leaf on their family tree. At holidays, there's a certain sadness that nobody else knows the particular traditions. The Wall Street Journal, 11/22/2011
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Taylor Swift sees fame as a responsibility
- Celebrity HealthStyles
- November 23, 2011
Music sensation Taylor Swift tells Lesley Stahl that she is reminded of her status as role model every day and takes it very seriously. During her interview on "60 Minutes," Swift, who ended up being named Artist of the Year at the American Music Award show televised Sunday night, says "the truth is that every
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Bullying Moves From Online to Text-Messaging: Study
- Home & Family
- November 23, 2011
Bullying continues to plague our children, and as they become more technologically-inclined, so does virtual-bullying. A new study into virtual-bullying both online and by text-message shows that kids aged 10-15 years are being increasingly harassed through these technological mediums. Additionally, "unwanted sexual solicitation" from text-messages has increased by 1.9 times, from 2006 to 2008. HealthDay, 11/21/2011
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Patients, too, turn to the Internet for fund-raising
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- November 22, 2011
With a few keystrokes, friends and strangers can help defray treatment costs for patients who have started fund-raising campaigns on web sites like IndieGoGo, which is becoming increasingly popular. The New York Times, 11/21/2011
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Shakira Travels to India to Support Education for Girls
- Celebrity HealthStyles
- November 19, 2011
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Shakira has been an advocate for education for quite a while, from traveling to the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem to talk about “Education for Peace” to donating $400,000 to a school in Haiti. In her most recent endeavor, she traveled to India to meet with adolescent girls and discuss the importance
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A Watch-and-Wait Prostate Treatment
- Health & Healing
- November 19, 2011
Amidst all the controversy over whether men should be screened for prostate cancer with the PSA blood test, this story explains what "active surveillance" entails and how to know when it's an option. The article also explores the diet, nutrients, and supplements that Dr. Aaron Katz, director for the Center of Holistic Urology at Columbia
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Could a worm hold the key to living longer?
- Health & Healing
- November 19, 2011
By studying the roundworm, biochemist Dr. Cynthia Kenyon and her team have pinpointed a combination of rare genes that seem to counter the effects of aging. ABC News, 11/17/2011
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Johnson & Johnson to nix baby product contaminant within 2 years
- Home & Family
- November 19, 2011
Earlier this month a consumer group urged Johnson & Johnson to remove a preservative called quaternium-15, which is considered to be a possible trigger for certain cancers and skin allergies, from its baby shampoo. In response, J & J says it plans to eliminate the formaldehyde-releasing preservatives from hundreds of its baby products within two
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A Nursing Home Shrinks Until It Feels Like a Home
- Home & Family
- November 18, 2011
Toni Davis is the director of the Green Hill Retirement Community in West Orange, NJ, and what she has done there is truly inspiring. She has made changes that have greatly improved the lives of the residents and their sense of well-being (and that of their loved ones who comes to visit) while keeping her
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Three Generations, Two Comfy Homes a Few Steps Apart
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- November 17, 2011
To save money, Wanda Urbanska, her son, Henry, and her mother, Marie Whittaker, all live together in Raleigh, N.C., with Ms. Whittaker living in a cottage behind her daughter's house. While Michael Litchfieldd, author of In-laws, Outlaws and Granny Flats, says, "the arrangement is not for everyone," it appears to be working out well for
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Would-be restaurateurs turn to the public for cash
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- November 17, 2011
Here's a novel way to raise the capital needed to open a restaurant: one restaurant planned for New York City's Tribeca area is asking 2000 people to give 500 dollars each in return for their money, they will be guaranteed a lifetime of special privileges, a 25% discount on all meals, and priority when it
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