“Why We Cry: The Truth About Tearing Up”

“The lowdown on tears: Why some cry easily, others don’t cry, and how to handle all those tears.”

It starts with a quivering lip. Or maybe blinking faster and faster to keep the wetness from escaping.

Before you know it, you’re getting teary — again.

You may be one of those people who cry at the drop of a hat — not to mention weddings, birthday parties, your kids’ school plays, and the humane society public service announcements showing those adorable dogs in need of new homes.

Or you may be the type who can’t remember when you last cried.

Either way, crying often catches the often-teary eyed or the usually stoic off guard — striking at a time or place where you don’t want to weep — and others don’t want to watch you weep.

Just ask New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, normally stoic, who got teary as he announced the retirement of his star linebacker Tedy Bruschi. Or Hilary Clinton, whose tears one night on the 2008 presidential campaign trail were splashed across TV screens.

Football coaches and politicians crying in public may reflect a society that’s evolving to become a bit more comfortable with emotion. But crying in front of people can still be awkward for the person crying and people around them.

What’s behind our crying? Why do some people cry so much more or less readily than others? And what’s the best way to handle all those tears? Is there a way not to cry when it’s totally inappropriate, such as in response to your boss declining that request for a raise?  Researchers and therapists who study crying share what they’ve learned — and what still puzzles them.

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“Don’t Fall for These 6 Happiness Myths; Learn How to Overcome Them”

If you’d like to be happier — who wouldn’t? — the first step may be to challenge your own views about happiness.

Maybe you think that to be happier, you need more than you have now — more freedom, more money, more love … fill in the blank. Or maybe you’ve convinced yourself that this is as good as it gets.

Such beliefs may be more myth than fact. Although a myth usually contains a kernel of truth, it can also sprout and grow, spreading seeds of doubt that can ultimately crowd out your own growth.

Here are six common myths about happiness that may actually be downsizing your happiness. The truth may set you free for a happier life, starting right now.

Happiness Myth No. 1: Either you have it or you don’t.

Say you have two kids you’ve raised just the same, but they have opposite personalities — one sour, the other sunny. This makes it hard to dispute the fact that genes play a powerful role in each person’s happiness. There’s evidence that genetics contributes to about 50% of your happiness set point.

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“Lifesaving Vaccines Adults Need”

“4 Lifesaving Vaccines Adults Need”

Kids aren’t the only ones who should go in for their immunizations. We grown-ups require vaccines and booster shots too, but many of us aren’t getting them. In fact, about 50,000 American adults die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases, says the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases — primarily the flu. Read on to find out if you should go in for one of these vaccines now.

1. Flu vaccine

• What it does: Prevents influenza, the highly contagious respiratory illness that each year makes up to 20 percent of us suffer fever, aches, sore throat, runny nose, and nausea — and causes an estimated 36,000 deaths annually. This season there could be two separate shots: the regular flu vaccine, out this month, and one for H1N1 virus (“swine flu”), which, if distributed, will be available later in the year. For flu updates, visit the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website: cdc.gov/flu.
• Who should get it: The CDC encourages everyone 6 months and older to receive the shot. But certain people at high risk for flu complications absolutely must get vaccinated: children ages 6 months to 19 years, pregnant women, people 50 and older, anyone with certain chronic medical conditions, health-care workers, and people who live with or care for anyone else on this list.
• How often: Once a year between September and February — the sooner, the better. If a swine flu shot comes out, get both vaccines for full protection.

2. Hepatitis B vaccine

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“Suspension at Aurora Middle School – Case Narrative”

Anxiously pushing aside the lace curtain, Mai Nguyen looked down from her third floor window, hoping to see June’s familiar face. She had lived here in Seattle, Washington with her family since arriving a little over eight months ago and she usually took great delight in watching the busy street. She liked to see what the women wore on their way to work, and how the kids chased together to the end of the block. The noise and liveliness helped to ease her mind of the terrible memories that often crowded in and the misery she had endured for years before she emigrated from a Vietnamese refugee camp in Malaysia with her kids.

But today Mai’s worry for Khoi, her 13-year-old son, loomed too large for her to take any pleasure in the antics below. Looking back over her shoulder, Mai could see Khoi sitting on his bed, his knees pulled to his chin rocking slightly to the music that escaped from the headphones gripping his ears.

For the most part, Khoi had adapted to his new life relatively easily and was popular with his peers because of his athletic ability. He was always the first to be picked for a soccer game and had proudly placed his school trophy in a prominent place in the apartment’s tiny living room. Mai found great joy in Khoi’s successes and hoped that his younger siblings would follow his lead.

But last week, Khoi had arrived home late, unhappy and dejected. “I’ve been suspended,” he told Mai despondently, and handed her a note that she could not read. Mai cajoled and pushed and finally got through his uncharacteristically defiant stance to find out what happened. “I didn’t know,” he told her, his voice taut with hurt and frustration. “I didn’t know you have to stand away from a fight. It was my friend Tran Le and another boy who were fighting and I wanted to see what was going on. Then they took me away and gave me this letter. It says I have to stay home 5 days and then I can go back. But I’m never going back, never!”

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“New Benefits Help Veterans Go to College”

The U.S. government was not kind to its returning World War I veterans. Former troops were cast out of work when the Great Depression hit. Denied war bonuses that could have ameliorated their plight, tens of thousands of veterans and their families marched on Washington in 1932 to demand government support.

President Herbert Hoover promptly ordered them suppressed by the same Army in which they had served.

It was this callous treatment that Congress had in mind when it passed the original GI Bill on the heels of World War II. The law was designed to offer a constructive pursuit–earning a college education–to millions of returning veterans, largely in the hopes of avoiding the sort of violent upheaval the nation had seen in the previous decade. It worked, and in the course of providing college education for millions of returning vets, it also stirred a social revolution, creating a solid foundation for a middle-class America, says Glenn Altschuler, professor of American studies at Cornell University and author of The GI Bill: A New Deal for Veterans.

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“…early life trauma and stress…how they can result in behavioural problems.”

“Early life stress ‘changes’ genes”

A study in mice has hinted at the impact that early life trauma and stress can have on genes, and how they can result in behavioural problems.

Scientists described the long-term effects of stress on baby mice in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Stressed mice produced hormones that “changed” their genes, affecting their behaviour throughout their lives.

This work could provide clues to how stress and trauma in early life can lead to later problems.

The study was led by Christopher Murgatroyd, a scientist from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany.

He told BBC News that this study went into “molecular detail” – showing exactly how stressful experiences in early life could “programme” long-term behaviour.

To do this, the researchers had to cause stress to newborn mouse pups and monitor how their experiences affected them throughout their lives.

“We separated the pups from their mothers for three hours each day for ten days,” Dr Murgatroyd explained.

“It was a very mild stress and the animals were not affected at a nutritional level, but they would [have felt] abandoned.”

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Movie Inventions -What you may not Know or Remember.

“Top ten movie inventions”

The wonder of movies allows filmmakers’ imaginations to run wild and create astounding gizmos that need not rely on logic. They give us glimpses into a world where technology has moved in leaps and bounds to make life easier and infinitely more interesting.

More than anything they make us look towards the future with a sense of hope and wonderment at what might await us in electronic form. Although, we are six years away from when Back to the Future II promised hoverboards and I’m starting to become concerned.

Sure sci-fi and fantasy have given us the star destroyers, warp speed, cyborgs and various other creations but it’s the pocket size ones that fascinate us. The portable aspect of these inventions makes them somewhat more believable and easier to fantasise about.

We have taken this opportunity to reflect on our top ten favourite movie inventions and ponder what life could be like if these handy gadgets really existed.

10. Invisibility Cloak (Predator)

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