Live while you are alive
According to a survey survey by the website Undercover Lovers, its female members had had 2.3 lovers, on average; the men just 1.8. This is very puzzling. How can one have 0.3 or 0.8 lovers? Doesn’t this indicate a lack of enthusism?
Among some Americans a celebration, be it a wedding or an anniversary, July 4th, or New Year – is marked by gunfire. A majority of people (it is thought) use blanks, although why it’s necessary to do so at all isn’t explained. But when an actual bullet is fired up into the air, guess what, …
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To The Oldie I haven’t got a computer, but I was told about Facebook and Twitter, and am trying to make friends outside Facebook and Twitter while applying the same principles. Every day, I walk down the street and tell passers-by what I have eaten, how I feel, what I have done the night before …
Dogs win our hearts by staring soulfully into our eyes. Researchers have discovered that when dogs have prolonged eye-to-eye contact with their owners, it causes a rush – in both man, and his best friend – of oxytocin, the “love hormone” believed to promote maternal-infant bonding. For the study, reported in the journal Science, animal …
A joint British Home Office and Foreign Office task force deals with cases where teenagers are taken abroad and forced, usually without notice, into marriage. Some 1,200 British moslem children are forced into marriage every year, usually abroad and during the summer holidays. Sometimes, the perpetrator can be an older brother who is British-born, but …
