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...more outgoing, more active and less neurotic than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be empathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings comport with what you would expect from evolutionary theory: those who are extroverted enough to make friends and help others are those who are going to be able to gather enough resources to make it through tough times. (See 20 ways to get and stay happy...
Unfortunately, another recent study shows that your mother's personality -which, of course, you can't change - may also help determine your longevity. That study looked at nearly 28,000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets full of chocolate, soda and pancakes. Patterns of childhood eating can be very hard to break when we're adults adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger...
...Upcoming excavations of Flores spearheaded by Mike Morwood, the lead researcher of the Australian-Indonesian team that first unearthed the bones, may help answer the essential question, as Falk puts it, "When did the first [hobbit ancestors] get to the island, and what did they look like...
...warships to stop and search vessels headed for Haiti. He also ordered a reinforced rifle company of perhaps 600 Marines to proceed from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and there to go on alert, ready to fly to Haiti to help evacuate the thousands of U.S. citizens there, should that become necessary. It might not be necessary, though. At week's end, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, head of the Haitian army, and Joseph Michel Francois, chief of police, gave some indications that they were turning conciliatory. Both were supposed to step...
...Shantali. Durant, suffering from broken bones in the back, leg, arm and face, was flown to an American hospital in Germany. Oakley also made some progress getting neighboring African states, notably Ethiopia and Eritrea, to involve themselves in peacemaking. One project he has been assigned by Clinton is to help organize an African commission to investigate who really was responsible for the killing of 24 Pakistani U.N. soldiers in June (though the U.N. and U.S. have no doubt it was Aidid). That would enable the U.S. and U.N. to negotiate with Aidid without officially ignoring a Security Council resolution calling...