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...changes in the brain become permanent. Long-term meditators - those with 15 years of practice or more - appear to have thicker frontal lobes than nonmeditators. People who describe themselves as highly spiritual tend to exhibit an asymmetry in the thalamus - a feature that other people can develop after just eight weeks of training in meditation skills. "It may be that some people have fundamental asymmetry [in the thalamus] to begin with," Newberg says, "and that leads them down this path, which changes the brain further...
...simply to study the health of regular churchgoers. Social demographer Robert Hummer of the University of Texas has been following a population of subjects since 1992, and his results are hard to argue with. Those who never attend religious services have twice the risk of dying over the next eight years as people who attend once a week. People who fall somewhere between no churchgoing and weekly churchgoing also fall somewhere between in terms of mortality...
...instead open with a big musical number that references the recession. But every good concept we had we immediately killed because it reminded us of Billy Crystal. You would think that would be a good thing, since Crystal was the most beloved Oscar host ever and got the job eight times. But comedy writers are far more interested in impressing other comedy writers than in pleasing an audience. This is why most comedy sucks. If we thought we could have gotten away with an opening number that made fun of genocide, we would have. Instead, we just wasted hours making...
...separate wellness program for its diabetic employees, based on their specific needs and unique barriers to care. Today Amica covers all co-pays on necessary diabetes drugs but only for patients who attend five key annual preventive-health checkups, including an eye exam and a foot exam. Within eight months of the program's launch in 2008, about half of Amica's diabetic employees were enrolled. It was a win-win situation: members had saved nearly $35,000 in out-of-pocket expenses, and Amica's health-care costs on compliant members dropped 50% within a year. Best...
...Afghanistan A Deadly Raid in Kabul's Heart On the eve of a visit by Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, eight suicide bombers and attackers armed with assault rifles struck three government buildings in Kabul on Feb. 12, killing at least 20 people and wounding 57. Taliban spokesmen quickly claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying they were in revenge for the mistreatment of jailed insurgents...