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We are not amused (Queen Victoria) ? When you see Miss Arnot Robertsonlaughing at Frank Muir's jokes, you would conclude she is by nature a verymerry person; or else that Frank is kicking her

Ask Well I can never figure out how bestto time my meals with my workouts. Should I be eating before I exercise orafter? ? We've all been there: It's 6 p.m.and you just got home from work. You

A British wildlife park has eight birds that have not been on their best behaviour. The African grey parrots love to shout expletives and squawk swearwords. The highly intelligent animals learn

Ithought about another story - one my mother had told me. ? Onemorning in 1979, when she and my father were staying at my grandmother's housenear downtown Los Angeles, they were jogging together

Thesystem is also simply irrational at times. Consider Drew Calver, aforty-four-year-old high-school history teacher and swim coach. A fit swimmerwho had completed an Ironman triathlon five months

GettingKids Turned On to Reading ? Onecomplaint I am hearing from both parents and teachers is that the No Child LeftBehind law makes it impossible to spend much time on subjects other

Frank Lloyd Wright Designs A House For Marilyn Monroe ? The Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue, New York Autumn 1957 ? One afternoon in the autumn of 1957, the most veneratedarchitect in

Messing about in boats (Wind in the Willows) ? Many years ago I occasioned tovisit Java, a timber plantations there.?I was visiting a chap who was doing experiments, dangerous experiments,in

If you found a piece of expired fruit in the kitchen cabinet, would you, A, throw it away, B, compost it or, C, try to sell it? An auction house in Newport, England, found a 285-year-old lemon in the

Ask Well I want to dermaplane my face toget rid of peach fuzz. But is it safe to do myself? ? Peach fuzz can crop up anywhereon the body. But when those wispy little hairs appear on the face,

Dan Neidle inserted a sentence into the privacy policy on the U.K. think tank's website in February: We will send a bottle of good wine to the first person to read this. He got a response in May.

Oneof my favorite celebrity stories involving my father was one he liked to tellabout the night he spent with Elvis Presley. On February 14, 1973, ElvisPresley presented my father with a white

Mildautistic traits can provide the single-mindedness that gets things done. HansAsperger stresses the value of people with Asperger's syndrome, recognizingthat they often achieve success in highly

Insome states, at-risk young people and their families can be coached together.One evidence-backed program is Youth Villages, which is a bit like aNurse-Family Partnership for at-risk teenagers and

It must be a peace without victory (Woodrow Wilson) ? This was said by a man who hated marzipan.? And he particularly hated greenmarzipan.? And the other thing for whichhe was noted was that he

I have had a Kacey Musgraves songstuck in my head for two weeks, and it's making me crazy. Why is thishappening? ? First, some reassurance. You'renot alone. Research suggests that catchy songs

news of the magpie. It's a colorful little bird that weighs just a few ounces and will attack you like a beast if it perceives you as a threat. An 8-year-old in Australia saw a magpie swoop down on

Thebest tippers ("fish") and the worst ("snakes") were wellknown to porters, by occupation and name. Grooms were fish, to impress theirblushing brides. Musicians were skinflints, actors marginally

Forhalf a century until 1970, America's incarceration rate held steady and was inline with the norm for other advanced countries. Beginning in the early 1970s,our incarceration rate soared fivefold,

Intheir book, The Stigma of Genius, the biographers Joe L. Kincheloe, Shirley R.Steinberg, and Deborah J. Tippins puzzled over the dichotomy between Einstein'spublic charm and charisma and his