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(Thomas Kinkade with his artwork)
Thomas Kinkade is America's most collected living artist. Coming from a modest background, Kinkade emphasizes simple pleasures and inspirational messages through his paintings. As a devout Christian, Kinkade uses his gift as a vehicle to communicate and spread inherent life-affirming values.
It was while growing up in the small town of Placerville, California that these important values were nurtured. It was also during this time that Kinkade began to explore the world around him. He spent a summer on a sketching tour with a college friend, producing the best-selling instructional book, The Artist's Guide to Sketching. The success of the book landed the two young artists at Ralph Bakshi Studios to create background art for the animated feature film Fire and Ice. It was also during this time that Kinkade began to explore light and imaginative worlds with abandon.
Thomas Kinkade (born January 19, 1958 in Sacramento, California) is an American painter of realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products via The Thomas Kinkade Company. He is self described as "Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light" (a trademarked phrase), and as "America's most-collected living artist". Media Arts, the publicly-traded company that licenses and sells Kinkade's products, claims that 1 in 20 homes in the U.S. feature some form of Thomas Kinkade’s art. He has received criticism for the extent to which he has commercialized his art—for example, selling his prints on the QVC home shopping network. Others have written that his paintings are merely kitsch, without substance, and described it as chocolate box art.
A key feature of Thomas Kinkade's paintings is their glowing highlights and saturated pastel colors. Rendered in an impressionist style cross-pollinated with American Scene Painting values, his works often portray bucolic, idyllic settings such as gardens, streams, stone cottages, and Main Streets. His hometown of Placerville (where his works are omnipresent) is the setting of many of his street and snow scenes. He has also depicted various Christian themes including the Christian cross and churches.
Kinkade says he is placing emphasis on the value of simple pleasures and that his intent is to communicate inspirational, life-affirming messages through his work. A self-described "devout Christian" (all of his children have the middle name "Christian", Kinkade has said he gains his inspiration from his religious beliefs and that his work is intended to contain a larger moral dimension. He has also said that his goal as an artist is to touch people of all faiths, to bring peace and joy into their lives through the images he creates. Many pictures contain specific chapter-and-verse allusions to certain Bible passages.
Kinkade hides the letter "N" in his paintings as a tribute to his wife, Nanette. He also includes the names and images of his daughters in many of his paintings. He was also greater influenced by the American Spirit found in the paintings of Norman Rockwell. Both men had similar ideas, in that they both expressed the conservative views of small town America.
July 2009 release “Savannah Romance”
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* Thomas Kinkade in Wikipedia
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* Google search: Thomas Kinkade-3D rain paintings
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Thomas Kinkade’s 3D pictures-falling rain and flowing water
The pictures shown below are the masterpiece drawings with a magic show of falling rain and flowing water. Please note this is animated .gif files created by others based on painting work done by Thomas Kinkade.
Just stare at the picture for a second and enjoy the magic of pictures. The rain and water effect can be seen only if the photo is online.
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NASA lost moon footage, but Hollywood restores it
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NASA restored video: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/apollo11.html
Neil Armstrong landed on moon on 20th July 1969 in Apollo 11 mission
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http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/ 27 July, 2009 edition
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Well decorated Drass war memorial during 10th year of
Operation Vijay at Drass on Sunday.
DRASS, July 26: The sound of the last post in memory of Kargil heroes today reverberated from the capital to the erstwhile battlezones of Ladakh, where families of many of the slain soldiers gathered for the first time in 10 years, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led the nation in paying victory day tributes, also a first for a UPA Government.
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Tennis sensation Sania Mirza [ Images ] looked stunning in a specially-created green and gold outfit as she got engaged to childhood friend and family acquaintance Mohammed Sohrab Mirza at a private ceremony, amid tight security, at the Taj Krishna hotel in Hyderabad on Friday night (July 10, 2009).
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Unrest in Urumqi City, Uighur Province, China, July 7, 2009
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The engineering marvel Bandra-Worli sea link was opened on June 30, 2009. The 5.6-km drive from Bandra to Worli over the sea link may be over in 6-7 minutes.
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Rajmata Gayatri Devi, a three-time MP, died in Jaipur on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 following a prolonged illness. She was 90.
Gayatri Devi, who became an extremely successful politician, breathed her last at Satokben Durlabh Memorial Hospital where she was readmitted on Tuesday for chest infection after she was discharged a few days ago.
We bring you pictures of the erstwhile ‘Maharani of Jaipur’ who was once named in 'World's Ten Most Beautiful Women' by Vogue magazine.
(Rajmata Gayatri Devi)
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Scientists mimic essence of plants' energy storage system
In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn't shine.
Until now, solar power has been a daytime-only energy source, because storing extra solar energy for later use is prohibitively expensive and grossly inefficient. With today's announcement, MIT researchers have hit upon a simple, inexpensive, highly efficient process for storing solar energy.
Requiring nothing but abundant, non-toxic natural materials, this discovery could unlock the most potent, carbon-free energy source of all: the sun. "This is the nirvana of what we've been talking about for years," said MIT's Daniel Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the work in the July 31 issue of Science. "Solar power has always been a limited, far-off solution. Now we can seriously think about solar power as unlimited and soon."
Inspired by the photosynthesis performed by plants, Nocera and Matthew Kanan, a postdoctoral fellow in Nocera's lab, have developed an unprecedented process that will allow the sun's energy to be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. Later, the oxygen and hydrogen may be recombined inside a fuel cell, creating carbon-free electricity to power your house or your electric car, day or night.
The key component in Nocera and Kanan's new process is a new catalyst that produces oxygen gas from water; another catalyst produces valuable hydrogen gas. The new catalyst consists of cobalt metal, phosphate and an electrode, placed in water. When electricity -- whether from a photovoltaic cell, a wind turbine or any other source -- runs through the electrode, the cobalt and phosphate form a thin film on the electrode, and oxygen gas is produced.
Combined with another catalyst, such as platinum, that can produce hydrogen gas from water, the system can duplicate the water splitting reaction that occurs during photosynthesis.
The new catalyst works at room temperature, in neutral pH water, and it's easy to set up, Nocera said. "That's why I know this is going to work. It's so easy to implement," he said.
'Giant leap' for clean energy
Sunlight has the greatest potential of any power source to solve the world's energy problems, said Nocera. In one hour, enough sunlight strikes the Earth to provide the entire planet's energy needs for one year.
James Barber, a leader in the study of photosynthesis who was not involved in this research, called the discovery by Nocera and Kanan a "giant leap" toward generating clean, carbon-free energy on a massive scale.
"This is a major discovery with enormous implications for the future prosperity of humankind," said Barber, the Ernst Chain Professor of Biochemistry at Imperial College London. "The importance of their discovery cannot be overstated since it opens up the door for developing new technologies for energy production thus reducing our dependence for fossil fuels and addressing the global climate change problem."
'Just the beginning'
Currently available electrolyzers, which split water with electricity and are often used industrially, are not suited for artificial photosynthesis because they are very expensive and require a highly basic (non-benign) environment that has little to do with the conditions under which photosynthesis operates.
More engineering work needs to be done to integrate the new scientific discovery into existing photovoltaic systems, but Nocera said he is confident that such systems will become a reality.
"This is just the beginning," said Nocera, principal investigator for the Solar Revolution Project funded by the Chesonis Family Foundation and co-Director of the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center. "The scientific community is really going to run with this."
Nocera hopes that within 10 years, homeowners will be able to power their homes in daylight through photovoltaic cells, while using excess solar energy to produce hydrogen and oxygen to power their own household fuel cell. Electricity-by-wire from a central source could be a thing of the past.
The project is part of the MIT Energy Initiative, a program designed to help transform the global energy system to meet the needs of the future and to help build a bridge to that future by improving today's energy systems. MITEI Director Ernest Moniz, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, noted that "this discovery in the Nocera lab demonstrates that moving up the transformation of our energy supply system to one based on renewables will depend heavily on frontier basic science."
The success of the Nocera lab shows the impact of a mixture of funding sources - governments, philanthropy, and industry. This project was funded by the National Science Foundation and by the Chesonis Family Foundation, which gave MIT $10 million this spring to launch the Solar Revolution Project, with a goal to make the large scale deployment of solar energy within 10 years.
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JUNE 12, 2009
By JULIET CHUNG AND MIHO INADA
Classical pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii listens to the conductor’s breathing for cues, since he can’t see the baton. On stage, he feels for the edges of the keyboard before he begins playing, to orient his hands. He learns new pieces through listening and memorization, rather than reading the notes. The 20-year-old Japanese musician last weekend became the first blind pianist to win the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
“I’m handicapped, but I have overcome it,” he said at a crowded press conference in Tokyo Wednesday.
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(Nobuyuki Tsujii, shown above in the semifinal round of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, went on to tie for first place.)
The quadrennial Cliburn competition is a test of skill but also of endurance. It is a 17-day competition in Fort Worth, Texas, during which roughly 30 competitors who have been selected from hundreds of applicants are culled to 12, and then to six. By the competition’s end, each of the finalists has played a range of music including three recitals and two concerti.
Shaggy-haired Mr. Tsujii, blind since birth, proved a favorite early on. The standing ovations began after his performance in the preliminary rounds, when he played the Chopin Etudes, and continued all the way through the finals. Mr. Tsujii tied for first with Chinese pianist Haochen Zhang. In addition to a cash award of $20,000, he won three years of international concert tours and a CD recording. On Thursday, two of Mr. Tsujii’s CDs were among the top music sellers on Amazon Japan.
Pianist Norman Krieger, a professor at the USC Thornton School of Music who watched Mr. Tsujii’s performances online, was impressed by the difficulty of the pieces Mr. Tsujii chose, including Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, a piece notorious for its demanding physicality.
Some critics’ responses have been less favorable. In a Wednesday column in The Wall Street Journal, Benjamin Ivry wrote that Mr. Tsujii was “plainly out of his depth in the most demanding repertoire.” The Dallas Morning News said “too much of Tsujii’s performance was limp and colorless,” and suggested that his blindness was a factor in the results.
See part of pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii's final performance at the Van Cliburn competition.
Veda Kaplinsky, a Cliburn jurist who chairs the piano department at the Juilliard School, said Mr. Tsujii’s blindness played no role in his win. “He touched us with very honest, very forthright and very beautiful musicianship,” she said.
Mr. Tsujii began learning music by listening. His mother, Itsuko Tsujii, said in a telephone interview that at age 2 he played “Jingle Bells” on a toy piano after hearing her sing it. He switched to reading music in Braille at age 7, when he started using Braille to read and write. Learning music in Braille is laborious. Pianists learn the music for each hand separately—using one hand to read the score in Braille and the other to play—and then combine what they have memorized. Mr. Tsujii eventually adopted a different method: Now he practices from a recording of a volunteer reading aloud every musical note in a piece.
Mr. Tsujii, who grew up in Tokyo and trained with local teachers, performed with the Osaka Century Symphony at age 10. He made a debut recital at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall at age 12 and also appeared at Carnegie Hall. He is currently at the Ueno Gakuen College of Music in Tokyo.
Although there is a rich tradition of blind organists and organist-pianists, blind artists focusing primarily on the piano are less common. In the 18th century, a blind Austrian pianist named Maria Theresia Paradis commissioned works from composers including Mozart and Salieri. In the 19th century, “Blind Tom” Wiggins, who was born a slave, rose to fame.
By comparison, examples of renowned blind pianists in popular music abound. Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, George Shearing and Art Tatum, who was seriously visually impaired, helped dispel the notion that sight was a prerequisite for great musicianship. Though Ray Charles knew musical Braille, he came to rely nearly entirely on playing by ear, says Rob Bowman, an ethnomusicology professor at York University in Toronto. When composing music for big-band arrangements, Mr. Charles would dictate the parts to the musicians or arrangers, who would translate his directions to sheet music.
Some evidence suggests a correlation between blindness and musicality. In the general population, absolute pitch is rare, a skill one in 1,000 or perhaps one in 10,000 has, says Oliver Sacks, a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, whose book “Musicophilia” explores the relationship between music and the brain. In those born blind, he says, it is one in two or one in three.
Neuroplasticity, or the ability of neural networks to adjust to changing conditions, may play a role in any heightened aural sensitivity in the blind. Among the congenitally blind, parts of the visual cortex, which ordinarily is dedicated to processing visual information, can instead become reactive to stimuli from other senses such as touch and hearing, music scientists say. Another possibility: With the loss of one sense, the blind may simply pay more attention to information coming in from their other senses.
At the press conference Wednesday, Mr. Tsujii said that Chopin and Beethoven are among his favorite composers, and that he likes to sing karaoke, particularly enka, or Japanese ballads.
He was also asked what he would do if he could see for a day. “I’d love to see my parents, and then my friends, stars, ocean, fireworks, et cetera,” he said. “But it’s okay, because I’m satisfied that I can see those with the eyes of my heart.”
Write to Juliet Chung and Miho Inada at Juliet.Chung@wsj.com and Miho.Inada@wsj.com
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Updated July 07, 2009
(MayoClinic.com) Feeling crabby lately? It could be you aren't getting enough sleep. Work, household responsibilities and child care can make sleep difficult to come by. Factor in other unexpected challenges, such as financial worries, layoffs, relationship issues or an illness, and quality sleep may be even more elusive.
You may not be able to control or eliminate all of the factors that interfere with your sleep, but you can create an environment and adopt habits that encourage a more restful night. Try these suggestions if you have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep:
1. Go to bed and get up at about the same time every day, even on the weekends. Sticking to a schedule helps reinforce your body's sleep-wake cycle and can help you fall asleep more easily at night.
2. Don't eat or drink large amounts before bedtime. Eat a light dinner at least two hours before sleeping. If you're prone to heartburn, avoid spicy or fatty foods, which can make your heartburn flare and prevent a restful sleep. Also, limit how much you drink before bed. Too much liquid can cause you to wake up repeatedly during the night for trips to the toilet.
3. Avoid nicotine, caffeine and alcohol in the evening. These are stimulants that can keep you awake. Smokers often experience withdrawal symptoms at night, and smoking in bed is dangerous. Avoid caffeine for eight hours before your planned bedtime. Your body doesn't store caffeine, but it takes many hours to eliminate the stimulant and its effects. And although often believed to be a sedative, alcohol actually disrupts sleep.
4. Exercise regularly. Regular physical activity, especially aerobic exercise, can help you fall asleep faster and make your sleep more restful. However, for some people, exercising right before bed may make getting to sleep more difficult.
5. Make your bedroom cool, dark, quiet and comfortable. Create a room that's ideal for sleeping. Adjust the lighting, temperature, humidity and noise level to your preferences. Use blackout curtains, eye covers, earplugs, extra blankets, a fan or white-noise generator, a humidifier or other devices to create an environment that suits your needs.
6. Sleep primarily at night. Daytime naps may steal hours from nighttime slumber. Limit daytime sleep to about a half-hour and make it during mid-afternoon. If you work nights, keep your window coverings closed so that sunlight, which adjusts the body's internal clock, doesn't interrupt your sleep. If you have a day job and sleep at night, but still have trouble waking up, leave the window coverings open and let the sunlight help awaken you.
7. Choose a comfortable mattress and pillow. Features of a good bed are subjective and differ for each person. But make sure you have a bed that's comfortable. If you share your bed, make sure there's enough room for two. Children and pets are often disruptive, so you may need to set limits on how often they sleep in bed with you.
8. Start a relaxing bedtime routine. Do the same things each night to tell your body it's time to wind down. This may include taking a warm bath or shower, reading a book, or listening to soothing music. Relaxing activities done with lowered lights can help ease the transition between wakefulness and sleepiness.
9. Go to bed when you're tired and turn out the lights. If you don't fall asleep within 15 to 20 minutes, get up and do something else. Go back to bed when you're tired. Don't agonize over falling asleep. The stress will only prevent sleep.
10. Use sleeping pills only as a last resort. Check with your doctor before taking any sleep medications. He or she can make sure the pills won't interact with your other medications or with an existing medical condition. Your doctor can also help you determine the best dosage. If you do take a sleep medication, reduce the dosage gradually when you want to quit, and never mix alcohol and sleeping pills. If you feel sleepy or dizzy during the day, talk to your doctor about changing the dosage or discontinuing the pills.
Nearly everyone has occasional sleepless nights. But if you have trouble sleeping on a regular or frequent basis, see your doctor. You could have a sleep disorder, such as obstructive sleep apnea or restless legs syndrome. Identifying and treating the cause of your sleep disturbance can help get you back on the road to a good night's sleep.
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Posted Monday, July 13, 2009, at 6:23 PM ET
Does stress cause thinning hair?Nosy tabloids, an endless stream of ethics complaints, and opposition to her legislative agenda caused Sarah Palin so much stress that her hair thinned dramatically, according to an account published in the New York Times. Can stress really cause hair loss?
Yes. Studies on both laboratory mice and disembodied human hair follicles have shown that external stresses can cause hair loss. Researchers have exposed otherwise healthy mice to mouse-repelling sounds at 15-second intervals for 24 hours. The follicles of the stressed mice went dormant significantly faster than their more relaxed cousins. No such experiment has been conducted on people, but scientists do know that if you expose human hair follicles to substance P, a stress-related neurochemical, they will also become dormant.
Clinically speaking, the most common form of stress-induced hair loss is telogen effluvium, a thinning-out of the hair that comes about when follicles go into a prolonged resting phase. Under normal circumstances, a single strand of hair emerges from a scalp follicle during the anagen phase and proceeds to lengthen for a period of about three years. During the transitional catagen phase, the hair stops growing and the follicle tightens around the strand. Finally, the follicle enters the telogen, or resting, phase, for three months of dormancy before it sheds the strand of hair and starts the cycle anew. At any given time, about 10 percent of your scalp follicles should be in this resting phase—but that proportion can be much higher in telogen effluvium sufferers. This doesn't show up as baldness or hair-thinning until several months later, when all the resting follicles finally shed their hairs and restart the cycle.
In addition to garden-variety stress, telogen effluvium can be caused by pregnancy, medication, malnutrition, renal dialysis, or hypothyroidism. The condition usually resolves without treatment within a few months, although rare cases of permanent hair loss have been reported.
(Bored at work? You can easily identify the phase of your own plucked hair. Any strand with a round, white bulb on the end was in the telogen phase. Anagen hairs, on the other hand, usually break along the shaft, leaving the follicular tissue behind.)
Another cause of periodic hair loss is alopecia areata, in which white blood cells attack the hair follicles, leaving bald patches. Like arthritis or multiple sclerosis, it's an autoimmune disorder in which the body's defenses against invaders erroneously attack normal cells. The causes of the disease are not well-understood, but studies have suggested that some people are genetically predisposed to the condition, which often manifests during times of stress. It tends to emerge in childhood and recur periodically, so, unless she has a history, Palin probably won't develop it. Alopecia areata is usually treated with topical or injected steroids.
If Palin's hair really is thinning, there's a third possible explanation: Female androgenetic alopecia, or female pattern baldness. This condition—characterized by thinning of hair throughout the scalp, but especially on the crown—results not from stress but rather from hormonal changes typical of menopause. (While 10 percent of women suffer from the condition during their youth, almost 75 percent develop it during menopause.) Although the average American woman does not face menopause until turning 51, Palin, at 45, is within the normal range. Female androgenetic alopecia can be treated with minoxidil (Rogaine), but the drug only works in about one-fifth of all cases. For most, thinning hair is irreversible.
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Updated 9:06 a.m. EDT, Tue July 28, 2009
By Madison Park
CNN
(CNN) -- Divorce causes more than bitterness and broken hearts. The trauma of a split can leave long-lasting effects on mental and physical health that remarriage might not repair, according to research released this week.
Research shows health differences between people who are married and those who have gone through a divorce.
"People who lose a marriage take such damage to their health," said Linda Waite, a sociologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois.
Waite and co-author Mary Elizabeth Hughes, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, found that divorced or widowed people have 20 percent more chronic health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes or cancer than married people. They also have 23 percent more mobility limitations, such as trouble climbing stairs or walking a block.
Their article, published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, examined the marital history and health indicators for 8,652 middle-aged people in research funded by the National Institute on Aging. The authors found differences between the overall health of those who remain married and those who divorce.
Almost half of all U.S. marriages end in divorce, according to the National Institutes of Health.
"Losing a marriage or becoming widowed or divorced is extremely stressful," Waite said. "It's financially, sometimes, ruinous. It's socially extremely difficult. What's interesting is if people have done this and remarried, we still see, in their health, the scars or marks -- the damage that was done by this event.
Divorced people "have more chronic conditions, more mobility limitations, rate their health as poorer than people like them in age, race, gender, education who've been married once and are still married," Waite said.
The authors assessed health by taking data in four categories: chronic conditions, mobility, depressive symptoms and their self-assessment.
Previous research has suggested that marriage has protective health benefits by providing financial, social and emotional stability.
Married women have more financial security, which means better access to health care and reduced stress, Waite said.
"Married men have better health habits," she said in comparison to single males. "They lead a cleaner, healthier life, and less times in bars and eat better. Women tend to manage men's interactions with the medical system, get him in for colonoscopy and make sure they get flu shot."
Mark Hayward, director of the Population Research Center and a professor of sociology Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, said spouses check up on each other's needs. They remind each other about when to go see a doctor, a dentist or when to get a medical issue checked out.
"You're making decisions together about your lifestyle and investing in a future together," said Hayward, who was not involved in the latest research. But in a similar study, he found that divorce has a lasting impact on cardiovascular diseases, even after remarriage. His 2006 study, funded by the National Institute on Aging, found that divorced middle-aged women were 60 percent more likely to have cardiovascular disease than middle-aged women who remain married.
"There's no erasure of the effects of divorce," Hayward said. "There is intense stress leading up to divorce, stresses during divorce proceedings. Think of divorce as one of the most intense stressors. It leads to what we call dysregulation [impairment] in key cardiovascular process that may be permanently altered. You're not going back to your original set point."
Both genders suffer irreversible, detrimental effects on their health after losing marriage through a divorce or death of a spouse, according to the findings.
Those who did not remarry after a divorce or a spouse's death showed deficits in mental and physical health. Waite called this the "double whammy" because they don't get the protective effects of marriage and have gone through a "damaging, health-destroying experience."
They had worse health indicators than people who never married and therefore "didn't get the goods and didn't get the bads," Waite said.
People who remarried had better health than those who did not.
"If you loved and lost, did you find love again?" Waite said. "The people who did are doing better." But this group overall showed health deficits compared to those who remained married.
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