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Teenagers who use social networking sites and watch “suggestive” TV shows are more likely to use drugs and alcohol than teens with little exposure to such media, a new survey found. The survey included more than 1,000 youths from around the nation aged 12 to 17 and about half of their parents. On a typical day, [...] Over the last week, London, Birmingham and Manchester have been plagued by what are now called the first ‘social network’ riots. People go out in the streets because they read through Blackberry or Twitter, that their fellow rioters will hit this target. Overnight, the social networks that were the heroes of the Egyptian revolution have become [...] If you want people to like you, make them feel good about themselves. This golden rule of friendship works every time – guaranteed! The principle is straightforward. If I meet you and make you feel good about yourself, you will like me and seek every opportunity to see me again to reconstitute the same good [...] It’s a common belief that women take fewer risks than men, and that adolescents always plunge in headlong without considering the consequences. But the reality of who takes risks when is actually a bit more complicated, according to the authors of a new paper which will be published in the August issue of Current Directions [...] Finally, a study that makes perfect sense. According to a study published in the May issue of the journal Psychological Science, the happiest marriages are the ones that are the most, well, delusional. As reported today in the Los Angeles Times, the study shows that of 222 newlywed couples who were followed for three years, [...] Until very recently, even Rupert Murdoch ‘s sharpest critics might have admitted to envying the 80-year-old arch-conservative News Corporation CEO, who built a far-reaching media empire almost from scratch and made himself outstandingly rich even among billionaires. Now, though, amidst a phone hacking and corruption scandal that threatens to permanently damage his company, Murdoch is [...] |
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