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Some of us love math. Many of us just hate it. According to an AP-AOL News poll of 1,000 adults, almost four in 10 of those surveyed said they hated math in school. That's twice as many as felt that strongly about any other school subject, reports The Associated Press.
But not everyone hates math. About 25 percent of those surveyed said it was their favorite subject, which is about the same number who chose English and history. Slightly less chose science. Of course, math is one of those subjects that appeals to people who like clear cut answers. One plus one is two. Those who find such a black and white process overwhelming, prefer subjects that have a bit of gray and allow for interpretation and debate.
What's alarming about 40 percent of us hating math? It complicates efforts in U.S. schools to catch up with those math whizzes in Asia and Europe, notes AP. Math and science are critical to research, innovation and economic competitiveness, making it vital that students have a solid grounding in all subjects so they can become well-rounded citizens and skilled workers. How do we get kids interested in math? Fifth-grade math teacher Dianne Peterson of Merritt Island, Fla., told AP the key is to make it fun and capture their imagination at a young age. "I do a lot with music with them," Peterson told AP about how she teaches the multiplication tables. "I've got some CDs that go over the facts. Some of it is rap and some of it is jazzy songs."
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Here are the results of the Leger Marketing-Canadian Press survey of 1,052 adults that was conducted in January. Participants were asked to choose the three attributes they most valued in a potential mate, so the numbers add up to more than 100 percent.
What women want most in a man:
1. Faithful partner: 54 percent
2. Respect the other person's independence: 40 percent
3. Ability to listen: 35 percent
4. Physical attraction: 13 percent
5. Being good in bed: 6 percent
What men want most in a woman:
1. Faithful partner: 47 percent
2. Respect the other person's independence: 36 percent
3. Intelligence: 35 percent
4. Physical attraction: 26 percent
5. Being good in bed: 13 percent
The best place to meet that special someone:
1. Introduced by friends: 40 percent
2. Chance or luck: 17 percent
3. Introduced by family: 11 percent
4. Sports or social clubs: 7 percent
5. Work: 3 percent
6. Bars: 2 percent
7. Internet: 1 percent
8. Newspaper classifieds: 1 percent
Here's something that should gladden every heart: Fully 90 percent of those polled believe it is possible to be happy with the same person for a lifetime.
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With great tragedy often comes great heroism. And in this sense, Hurricane Katrina is no exception. While heroes come in all shapes and sizes, many children seem to be rising to this occasion.
Whether it's the poignant image of a 6-year-old boy holding a 5-month-old and leading a group of five toddlers to safety in downtown New Orleans or the lemonade stands run by children popping up on street corners and country roads across the U.S to raise money to help hurricane survivors, growing numbers of children seem to be pitching in however they can.
But what effects will this tragedy have on the mental health of those children who have been most affected?
"Most people when faced with trauma feel that if there is something they can do to feel more constructive, they will do it," and children are no exception, says Stuart Goldman, MD, a child psychiatrist at Children's Hospital in Boston.
"The majority of children faced with trauma do try to rally, but many can't rally that much," he says. "The images of young kids taking care of younger children are probably the marked exception, not the rule."
For kids who do pitch in, "there will be no change long term if they can go back to the way they were before the tragedy," he explains. "Resilient kids are surrounded by supportive adults that guide them and they feel as though they have the capacity to make a difference in their life." For example, the 8-year-old who is helpful to younger children has a positive resiliency factor.
"If you cope well that probably sets you up for being in a better position later," agrees Gail Saltz, MD, a psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in New York and the author of Becoming Real: Defeating the Stories We Tell Ourselves That Hold Us Back.
"A child who is able to do something that helped will be in a better place down the road because they were able to exert control and not be a victim," she says, adding that such behaviors take away helplessness.
Kids who didn't lose a parent or their home will get back on track as the school year starts and things return to some semblance of normalcy, Goldman says. However, "kids know being sheltered in the Houston Astrodome who will be there for the next three months and whose families have lost everything and will have to relocate are at the greatest risk for 'nonresilience,'" or the inability to bounce back from tragedy or adversity.
"Poverty and disadvantage are all risk factors for nonresilience," he says, "and that is the population that took it on the chin with Katrina."
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Men in love are men in lust. Women were right all along! Men really do have only one thing on their minds: sex.
When a couple falls in love, no doubt they each think the other feels the exact same way. Science tells us they don't. Using a functional MRI scanner, researchers from Rutgers University in New Jersey analyzed the brain activity of 17 young men and women who claimed to be madly in love. They determined the following, reports Science Daily:
A woman in love
* is an emotional woman, who isn't particularly focused on sex. The memory regions of the brain are the most active, driven by the attention lavished on her by her new boyfriend.A man in love is a man in lust. His brain shows extra activity in the visual areas that mediate sexual arousal.
The early stages of a romantic relationship are a lot like eating chocolate--at least as far as our brains are concerned. The dopamine-drenched brain is very focused on planning and the pursuit of a pleasurable reward. The same regions become active when we fall in love as when we enjoy the pleasure of eating chocolate, says lead researcher Helen Fisher. More ominously, the brain in love also shows patterns that resemble aspects of obsessive compulsive disorder.
i seem to be occcupying my time doing stupid stuff. *BFcomingup!!hahaha*
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anyway. i think i have a bad effect on muffy and nelson. generally they HATE the choc drops for dogs. but today i gave them some and they practically vacuumed the choc drops down!! was very very shocking. oh well. at least their choc is harmful to them. in fact, the dog chocolate drops smell very, very, good. hm. doubt its a good sign. whoopsiedoodles!
gaffys claws hurt. booboo.
jade came bck yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
