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Texting Teens Exhausted by Being ‘On Call’ All Night

March 28, 2011

Teens don’t want to miss emergency texts, even late-arriving ones.

10th-grader Ashley Olafsson sleeps with her cellphone under her pillow so she doesn’t miss “emergency’’ texts — “like if a friend broke up with her boyfriend.’’ Stephanie Kimball of Waltham, 14, is also available for urgent overnight correspondence, such as, “Hey, seeing if you’re awake.’’ Dedham ninth-grader Courtney Johnson gets as many as 100 texts while in bed. “I just don’t feel like myself if I don’t have my phone near me or I’m not on it,’’ she said.

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People are Happiest After Age 70 and Don’t Become Grumpy with Old Age

March 28, 2011

Our happiest years come in retirement and decades after the age of 70.

If your carefree youth is a distant memory and you’re entering middle age with a sense of gloom . . . cheer up. The happiest time of your life is probably yet to come.

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Employers Who ‘Overpay’ Workers Outperform Competitors

March 28, 2011

The best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table, so that people can focus on the work rather than on the cash.

The best use of money as a motivator can be to pay people enough to take the issue off the table.

After more than 200 years of sharing a common language, the United States and Great Britain now share a common predicament.

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Itching Really Can be Contagious

March 27, 2011

Researchers have shown that the sensation of an itch can be caught visually in the same way as yawning.

It is a phenomenon that can leave entire rooms full of people scratching at the merest mention of fleas or lice. Now scientists have proven for the first time that itching really can be contagious.

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Analysis, Food, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

Food Dye’s May be Linked to Hyperactivity in Children

March 26, 2011

Artificial dyes in food are not just limited to candy.

Push a cart down a supermarket aisle, and you’ll pass a kaleidoscope of color. The use of artificial dyes by foodmakers is up by half since 1990, and it’s not limited to candy. The list of foods made pretty by chemicals now includes pickles, bagels and port wine cheese balls.

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Obesity Rates Higher Among Church-goers

March 25, 2011

Frequent churchgoers frequently fatter.

An inactive lifestyle, watching TV and eating too many fatty foods are all to blame for many Americans being overweight and obese. We may have to add religion to that list.

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Prayer Helps Dissipate Anger, Even if You Don’t Believe In It

March 24, 2011

You can throw away the stress balls, prayer helps.

Suffering from excessive anger or aggression? Well, throw away your stress balls. A series of studies conducted at three universities show that praying helps dissipate your anger, whether or not it helps the person you are praying for.

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Top 10 Laziest States in America

March 23, 2011

The top spot as the laziest state in the union is Tennessee

In the earliest days of the U.S., the frontier was a tough place to live. Surely more than one pioneer, upon reaching the rushing and roiling Mississippi River, turned to his wagon-mates and said, with a wave of his hand, “Yeah, this looks like a nice place to settle, let’s call it a day.”

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Study: Religion on the Verge of Extinction in Some Countries

March 23, 2011

Percentage religiously unaliated versus time in four regions: (a) the autonomous Aland islands region of Finland, (b) Schwyz Canton in Switzerland, (c) Vienna Province in Austria, (d) the Netherlands

A study recently released by a team from Northwestern University and the University of Arizona shows that religion and religious affiliations may be on the verge of extinction in the nine countries studied. Utilizing a mathematical model of nonlinear dynamics, the team analyzed data from censuses taken in nine different countries dating as far back as a century.

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Walking and Talking on Cellphone Dangerous for Over 60’s

March 19, 2011

Walking and talking dangerous for seniors.

Older people find multi-tasking more difficult than younger ones, researchers have found, so those who “walk and talk” across a road could be putting themselves at greater risk.

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Wealthiest Countries Are Also the Smartest Countries: Study

March 18, 2011

The smartest 5 percent, made a big contribution to the strength of their economies.

It’s not just how free the market is. Some economists are looking at another factor that determines how much a country’s economy flourishes: how smart its people are. For a study published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, researchers analyzed test scores from 90 countries and found that the intelligence of the people, particularly the smartest 5 percent, made a big contribution to the strength of their economies.

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Study: ‘Apple’ Shape is No Less Healthy Than Being ‘Pear’ Shaped

March 12, 2011

Body shape has no affect on health as once believed.

Being an ‘apple’ shape is no less healthy than being a ‘pear’, according to a new study that turns the long-held belief on its head. Doctors have long thought that people with an ‘apple’ figure – a tendency to store fat around the belly rather than the hips – were at a higher risk of heart disease and stroke.

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