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Even some Park City locals welcomed the DGA pact. "I support the arts. I support the writers," said Silver Queen Fine Art gallery owner Timm Hilty. "But if I have to watch reruns of Lost I will need some pharmaceutical help." Hilty is hoping to do strong business this week with like-minded industry folk who see the sign on his gallery door: "Please don't make me watch reruns. End the writers' strike...
...past century, marriage was an unbreakable contract; divorce and infidelity offered escape clauses but scandalizing ones. In the rarefied air of celebrity, though, the rules were different. The public gave Hollywood stars (and other famous or notorious folks) permission to fool around, with the proviso that we could watch. Blue noses might tut-tut, but these couplings did carry their own moral. You could say, "At least I'm not like them." Or, "Why can't I be like them...
...watch-your-cholesterol lifestyle safeguards spouses erect around each other, much of what makes marriage so healthy for us takes place within our own bodies, entirely without our knowledge. A lot of those benefits come down to stress--or, specifically, the management of it. Stress puts into motion a biological cascade involving hormones, glands and neural circuits, all activating one another in a complex feedback loop. When you are stuck in traffic or overwhelmed at work or worn down by the kids, the hypothalamus--a structure buried deep in the midbrain--tells your adrenal gland to pump out a supply...
...when the protective bonds of marriage break, watch out. Those supposedly apocryphal tales of spouses who die within days of each other have more than a little truth to them. A 2007 British study found that at any given moment, a bereaved spouse has a greater risk of death from just about any cause (except, oddly, lung cancer) than a still married person. "Over time," says Coan, "your brain becomes used to the other person as part of your emotional-regulation strategy. You take that person away, and you become what we dryly call dysregulated--weepy, mournful, stay up half...
...well with small-government Republicans outside the state, he also suggested that the feds could be Detroit's savior, by bringing in billions in new federal investment. At a rally in Grand Rapids, Romney demanded to know, "How in the world can the Federal Government sit back and watch a state suffer year after year after year...