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Cell Phones Eliminate the Three-Day Rule in Dating — Survey of the Day
If a new survey from dating site Match.com is to be believed, the rules of dating have changed — largely because of cell phones, email and texting.
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How Do Our Listeners Feel About Tipping?
October 18, 2011 The Breakfast Flakes asked via Facebook how their listeners felt about paying an additional gratuity charge when you go out to eat with eight or more people, and whether or not it is a law. Some of you held pretty strong opinions. We collected your responses, and we'd love to hear your opinion if you haven't posted it yet!
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What Are the 10 Best Places to Retire?
When people retire, they often decide to pull up stakes and move to a new city. No longer bound by the restraints of employment offices or client locales, retirees may instead find themselves drawn to places with great weather, affordable housing or better amenities than where they currently live.
U.S. News used data from Onboard Informatics to ascertain 10 things people look for when they retire, and matched up those attributes with cities excelling in each.
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How to Make Men Happy… According to 1950s Home Economics
Boy, how times have changed. I found this online, it's from a 1950's Home Economics textbook (believe me, I didn't go to school that long ago). Apparently this "list" was intended for high school girls, teaching them how to prepare for married life.
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Perk Me Up!
So it seems anything you eat or drink these days effects you somehow negatively. There is always some study, somewhere, from some doctor, saying how all is BAD for you. Well a new study finds that women who consume a little extra java have a better time keeping off depression.
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Household Items That Could Save Your Life
So if you are anything like me, perhaps you have become a little too paranoid for your own good. How could you not feel that way with all those "gloom and doom" shows you can find on cable TV? You know, the "Top 10 Ways the Earth Will End" type TV shows? Boy, those are uplifting.
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Miranda Lambert Gives Advice for Up and Coming Artists
Miranda Lambert shared a bit of advice for aspiring singer/songwriters trying to get their own music heard; make sure you know who you are from the start.
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It’s That Time Again: Top Toys For the Holidays!
While we're still three months away, it looks like Elmo and a Harry Potter DVD game could be the top selling toys during the 2011 holiday season. Let's Rock Elmo and Scene it? Harry Potter: The Complete Cinematic Journey are two of the favorites that have made the list of the 20 hottest toys compiled by the Toy Insider to help shoppers find the perfect gifts for children.
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Getting Low On Things That Give You Cancer? Try Juice!
Guess they're running out of things that give you cancer -- so now it's juice! Yep, scientists say what was supposed to be the healthy way to start the day might not be as beneficial as you think.
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Back To School Safety
August 23, 2011 Can it be? It's back to school time already. School starts in School District 2 and many other towns tomorrow. As the back to school bell rings remember to watch for all the kids walking and playing on the sidewalks.
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What’s the Key to Living to 100?
According to a new study, people live to 100 because of good genes and luck, not healthy living habits.
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York interviewed 477 Ashkenazi Jews between the ages of 95 and 112 on their lifestyle choices. They found that this long-lived group was just about as likely to smoke, drink, eat poorly, be obese and shun exercise as a control group of about 3,000 people who had been born around the same time, but didn’t end up living as long.
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Gwyneth Paltrow Refuses Musical Advice from Husband Chris Martin
Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who’s recently made a name for herself as a singer in the movie ‘Country Strong’ and on the TV show ‘Glee,’ may be married to a rock star — but that doesn’t mean she leans on him for career advice.
In an interview in the September issue of ELLE magazine, Paltrow calls Chris Martin — her husband of 10 years and frontman for the band Coldplay — a “musical genius,” but said asking him for input on her musical endeavors would be “like living with Picasso and being like, ‘Should I make a little something-something?’”