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Oliver Burkeman's 'The Antidote' rethinks positive thinking
-------------------- The Antidote Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking Oliver Burkeman Faber & Faber: 256 pp, $25 -------------------- Oliver Burkeman's book "The Antidote" begins with thousands of people trying to think...
Tags: Science and Technology, Human Interest, Book, J.K. Rowling , George W. Bush
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'The Particle at the End of the Universe' gets real
-------------------- The Particle at the End of the Universe How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World Sean Carroll Dutton: 352 pp., $27.95 -------------------- On July 4, 2012, at the CERN laboratory in Geneva —...
Tags: Science and Technology, Fiction, Paleontology, Applied Physics, Science
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Consumer confidence tumbles to 5-month low on 'fiscal cliff' fears
WASHINGTON -- Consumer confidence plunged this month amid fears that politicians would be unable to resolve the fiscal cliff, triggering another recession next year, according to survey data released Friday. The closely watched consumer sentiment...
Tags: Economic Indicator, Consumers, Consumer Confidence, Thomson Corporation, George W. Bush
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CES 2013: Microsoft exec makes the case for Windows Phone 8
You’d have a hard time finding a bigger advocate for Windows Phone 8 than Greg Sullivan, a senior product manager at Microsoft. When I caught up with him at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas last week, he was an...
Tags: Media Industry, Religion and Belief, Science and Technology, Twitter, Inc., Xbox 360
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PASSINGS: Zig Ziglar, Don Rhymer, David Courtney
Zig Ziglar Speaker built motivational empire Zig Ziglar, 86, the consummate salesman who built a lucrative motivational empire, died Wednesday of pneumonia at his home in Plano, Texas, a family spokeswoman said. With an aim at helping people achieve...
Tags: Human Interest, Entertainment, ABC (tv network), Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (movie), Throat Cancer
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Getting your baby to sleep
Few topics get as much airtime with new parents as the subject of sleep, or lack thereof, and few topics are as polemic as sleep training. Los Angeles is home to some of the country's most noted pediatricians, but they don't all agree on how, when or even...
Tags: Science and Technology, Pediatrics, Hydrocortisone, Drugs and Medicines, Medical Specialization
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Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis meet. Discuss
"If the whole universe had no meaning," C.S. Lewis once wrote, "we should never have found out that it had no meaning." Pithy observations like that — rooted in logical argument — have made the writer one Christian whom many agnostics and...
Tags: Nazi Party, Entertainment, Movies, Dear John (movie), Comedy (genre)
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Letters: Much more than a jolly old elf
Re "Santa's last, best gift, Opinion, Dec. 25 I would suggest that the writer share with his daughters the answer my mother gave me. She explained that Santa Claus definitely exists because Santa Claus is the spirit of Christmas. So now, all these...Tags: William Shakespeare, Religion and Belief, Santa Claus (fictional character)
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'Zero Dark Thirty': Why the fabrication?
The critical acclaim for the new Kathryn Bigelow movie "Zero Dark Thirty" has renewed the debate on the efficacy of torture. The movie dramatizes the decade-long effort to find and eventually kill Osama bin Laden. In a riveting opening section, the film...
Tags: FBI, Movies, Entertainment, Dick Cheney, Al-Qaeda
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Consumer confidence rises to highest level since 2008
WASHINGTON -- Americans continued to shake off fears of the looming fiscal cliff, with a gauge of consumer confidence rising slightly this month to its highest level since early 2008. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index edged up to 73.7...
Tags: Economic Indicator, Consumers, Consumer Confidence, Thomson Corporation, Religion and Belief
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Letters: Putting Mideast peace on the back burner
Re "Renew the peace process? Not now," Opinion, Nov. 25 Chuck Freilich is correct that the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians are small. But in his entire piece he neglects to mention the root cause of the problem: the Israeli...Tags: West Bank, Barack Obama, Israel, United Nations, Religion and Belief
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Notre Dame better cover its bases to avoid another upset loss at USC
Let's see if I've got this straight or crooked: Notre Dame needs one win to get to the national title game and Sports Illustrated puts the Irish on this week's cover? I don't believe in genies or goblins, but the SI cover jinx is real. If you don't...
Tags: Big Ten Conference, Rose Bowl Game, Periodicals, USC Trojans, Oregon State Beavers
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