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Do you want to be happy in life?  Really happy?  Beyond our sunshine and the weekend yard sale?  Really really happy? Then here is the answer you’ve been seeking.  You have to enjoy yourself at work.   Don’t take my word for it.  Tom Griesel and Dian Griesel, the brother and sister co-founders of The Business School of Happiness say so.

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Holy Mackerel!  There’s nothing fishy about this report from Harvard.  Eat your fish. And while you watch for bones, don't hold back on seconds. The omega-3 fatty acids found in salmon, mackerel, herring, lake trout and albacore tuna

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I don’t really believe in horoscopes but I get a kick out of reading them.  I don’t know that the flavor of chewing gum I like reveals any deep inner secrets about me either…but again, I like to read the studies and conclusions.  So…with that thought in mind, the kind of pet you choose can be a direct reflection on the type of person you really are according to psychologist Marion Steinberg.

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USA! Hay Fe-ver! USA! Sniff and Sneeze!  Why is it that U.S.-born children more likely to have asthma, hay fever and eczema than foreign-born kids? A new study finds children living in the United States who were born elsewhere are less likely t

So you watched the May Day protest march coverage on TV both here and around the country and you heard the chants in Spanish, you saw the signs written in Spanish and your brain started to boil a bit.  You believe, like I do, that English should be the official language of America and all who want to be Americans should be required to learn English…as respect to the country and to prepare to fully function within the country

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Remember Michael Douglas as Gordon Gecko in the 1987 hit movie Wall Street?  In the picture he gave an oft quoted speech saying “greed is good”.

Well sorry to have to break it to ya Gordo but greed is not good, especially if you want to live a long and happy life

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Whether hunting game, fighting fires, herding livestock or protecting the home-front, man’s best friend since the days of the cave is the noble hound.  They come in all shapes, sizes and colors.  And know this: People will judge you by the breed you choose. 

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The very rich are different from you and me," said F. Scott Fitzgerald.  How different?  Well, Ivana Trump so abhors footprints on the carpet that she has the rooms in her home freshly vacuumed before she enters them.  Christina Onassis used to have Diet Coke flown to her by private jet.  You get the idea.  We wouldn’t think of any of that would we…even if we COULD afford it?  But one way they aren’t any different is in overall intelligence…common sense maybe,

but not intelligence! 

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We have a cat. No, they have a cat…my wife and daughter.  She (cat, not wife) is old and getting senile but she still rules the house.  I have tried. I play the allergy card, the hairball and germs card…even the “suck the life out of our daughter while she sleeps card” but to no avail.  The wife says she’s known the cat longer than me.  And now this! 

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The good people at Indiana University have concluded that the taste of beer is addicting.  Really?  Where is my honorary Ph.D. because my own years of research confirms that fact!  In fact, the taste of beer is addicting - whether it contains alcohol or not - and the taste makes us want to drink more.

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