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...needed support from everyone who knew and loved the family members she'd lost in rapid succession. She told me that it's easier for her to open up and express her grief in a Facebook message and that many of these messages led to phone calls and even in-person meetings. Nothing will take away the sadness of losing her parents and brother, but speaking to friends and connecting with others who are grieving is helping my mom realize she isn't alone...
...think they'll stop buying mortgage-agency securities, and the trillion-and-a-half-dollar check that's been written over the past nine to 12 months basically disappears. It's significant from the standpoint of interest rates and interest-rate spreads in certain sectors. And I would even go so far as to say it might be a mistake. (See the best business deals...
...Vincent Felitti, founder of Kaiser Permanente's Department of Preventive Medicine and director of its obesity-treatment program, was seeing some good results. His patients were losing 50, 80, even hundreds of pounds. He might have considered the program a success, if not for the fact that the participants who were doing the best - those who were both the most obese and losing the most weight - kept dropping...
...broader work linking stressful experiences early in life - as early as in the womb - to effects on health and behavior later on, such as an increased risk of heart disease or becoming addicted to drugs. Scientists are finding that such effects are not only long-lasting, but can even be inherited by future generations. (Watch a video about obesity and social networks...
...Michael Meaney at McGill University in Canada and his colleagues have shown how such environmentally induced traits can be passed down - then undone, also by environment. Meaney studied rats with differing maternal styles - some were naturally nurturing (they licked and groomed their pups constantly), others were less attentive and even neglectful (mother rats placed in stressful environments like isolation had greatly decreased capacity for nurture). What researchers found was that these behavioral traits were passed down to future generations: pups born to neglectful mothers endured stressful childhoods and grew up to become neglectful mothers themselves. But when babies born...