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...Crimson won Saturday in spite of playing before a hostile home crowd that included a quirky Hartford professor known as the "Hartford Superfan," who toted pompons and a megaphone in an attempt to whip the Hawks' crowd into a frenzy...
Paradoxically, the optional nature of friendship, which makes it more fragile than family ties, may increase its value. "Friendship contributes more to people's happiness in old age than their family relationships do," says Rebecca Adams, sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. "If we don't like our friends, we terminate the relationships or let them fade, so the ones we're left with are often fairly positive compared with family relationships, which we can't terminate." Furthermore, we tend to feel more gratitude for a friend's kindness than for a relative...
Though the number of friends may dwindle as we age, it seems our pleasure in them grows. Reason: "People become more selective and get better at knowing the kind of people they like and don't like," says Stanford psychology professor Laura Carstensen. "And they steer away from those they don't care...
...share a collective enterprise with us--but there are ways to continue meaningful communal activity. "The media's appeal to the self-interest of older people by saying 'Now's the time to play golf, have good sex, go on a cruise' is demeaning," says Msgr. Charles Fahey, professor of aging studies at Fordham University in New York City. "Friendships occur within the context of doing significant things, pursuing visions and dreams...
Fortunately, Castilian Spanish tends to be better pronounced and slower cadenced than elsewhere in Latin America. "Even when you botch up, it's worth it," notes Peter Moller, 58, a retired Colorado college professor who took a brushup course and then led a trip to the Galapagos. "People in Latin America are very understanding." Even so, those contemplating language immersion might want to learn the basics at a community college, then plunge in talking upon arrival...