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Your Luxury Car Will Make You Happier...Sometimes
KickingTiresDriving a luxury car should make you feel good, right? It stands to reason that if a vehicle rides better, comes with more gadgets and features, and has one of those status-elevating branding symbols ??? say, a Mercedes-Benz, BMW or......Tags: Trips and Vacations, Vehicles, Rolls-Royce, Consumers, Cadillac
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Flashy Cars Help Land Dates, Not Wives
KickingTiresWomen are more attracted to men who engage in frivolous spending ??? like buying exclusive supercars ??? but only briefly, according to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. I???m sure it didn???t take a rocket scientist to figure this......Tags: Vehicles, Philosophy, Science and Technology, Sociology, Medical Specialization
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Playing hated rivals can bring out the worst in fans
Hate to admit it, but Wednesday threatens to set this year's record for rancor in Chicago sports. Bulls and Blackhawks fans plan to load up on the loathing. All mean streets lead to 1901 W. Madison. In a rare overlap of postseason schedules, for about...
Tags: Miami Heat, National Basketball Association, Philosophy, Detroit Red Wings, Social Media
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'Charlie Brown and the Great Exhibit': Good, not great, grief
"Charlie Brown and the Great Exhibit" is a big, reasonably well-stuffed celebration of one of the great achievements in American popular culture, the "Peanuts" newspaper comic strip by lachrymose Minnesotan Charles Schulz. In section after section of...
Tags: Cartoons, A Charlie Brown Christmas (tv program), Artists, Halloween, Museums
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Indefinite enemies
Robert KoehlerYou're strapped to a metal table, unable to move. They stick a two-foot plastic tube up your nose, then down the back of your throat into your stomach. They squirt in the liquid protein. You gag, bleed, vomit. It's unbearably painful. The practice of...Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prisons, Heads of State, The Boston Globe, Government
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In Texas, black means future danger
Leonard PittsIf the state of Texas executes Duane Buck, it'll be because he is black. Well, mainly it will be because in 1995, he shot his ex-girlfriend, Debra Gardner, and her friend, Kenneth Butler, to death at Gardner's Houston home, and also wounded his own...Tags: Criminals, Crime, Law and Justice, NAACP, Witnesses, Justice System
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Proof math can be a real pain
Sian Beilock is the author of "Choke: What the Secrets Of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To." She recently co-authored a report that suggests that when a person is anxious about math, his or her brain responds in the same way it...
Tags: Science and Technology, Anxiety, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, University of Chicago
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Get OCD coworker off your back
Interpersonal EdgeQ. I work with someone who just loves obsessing about petty details. As far as he can tell, the sky is falling, every detail will cause the end of the world, and every mistake may end a life. I find him exhausting. Is there anyone I can get him to stop...Tags: Philosophy, Anxiety, Religion and Belief, Daneen Skube, Medical Specialization
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Generous parents don't want to fund wedding
Dear Amy: My daughter had a child out of wedlock four years ago. My wife and I have supported them both emotionally and financially and by baby-sitting the child. Now my daughter is engaged to a very good guy. She wants to have a wedding that will...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Marriage, Crime, Law and Justice, Psychologists, Weddings
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Entering homeownership with eyes wide open
Sitting down in front of a pile of mortgage loan documents to sign at the closing, with a lending officer and maybe a real estate agent at your side, what do you look at first? The eye typically latches on to the simplest things to read, namely the...
Tags: Real Estate, Money and Monetary Policy, Science and Technology, Education, Consumers
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Gun legislation failure dismays survivor of Texas mass shooting
Irma Garcia pulled back her sweater to show me where the bullet entered her shoulder and spun her around. It then torpedoed through her body and exited near the middle of her back. "I still have problems with it," she said, standing to show me how the...
Tags: Firearms, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Gun Control, U.S. Senate
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'ParaNorman' poses a parental challenge
As someone who does not have kids, I can attest to the fact that parents of small children love being told what they are doing wrong by the childless. Whenever I offer advice, parents smile so broadly! And listen so closely! Occasionally, blinded by...
Tags: Pixar Animation, Finding Nemo (movie), Brave (movie), Anxiety, Health and Medical Professionals
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