John Tierney explains the science behind our procrastination when it comes to doing things we’d like to do. Read to the end for one of the best movie lines ever.
Boston mom calls 911 after son won't quit playing video games.
In Time magazine, a doctor writes about the rush for end-of-year surgeries: “They are signing up to "get it fixed" a lot more often than a year ago — an unintended and ironic "stimulus package" to my surgical practice from folks whose incomes have been seriously hurt this year. I'm grown accustomed to the year-end push for elective surgery from patients who have met their deductibles for the year, but many now are anticipating the end of health benefits altogether. No one I know is behaving as though they expect truly better health coverage by governmental guarantee.
“Meet Yussuf Khoury, a 23-year old Palestinian refugee living in the West Bank. Unlike those descendents of refugees born in United Nations camps, Mr. Khoury fled his birthplace just two years ago. And he wasn't running away from Israelis, but from his Palestinian brethren in Gaza. Mr. Khoury's crime in that Hamas-ruled territory was to be a Christian…In 2007, one year after the Hamas takeover, the owner of Gaza's only Christian bookstore was abducted and murdered. Christian shops and schools have been firebombed. Little wonder that most of Mr. Khoury's Christian friends have also left Gaza.” (The WSJ covers the persecution of Christians in the little town of Bethlehem)
As the number of Messianic Jews has risen in Israel, persecution of believers in Israel come from ultra-Orthodox Jews, not just Muslims. Story.
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