Why Chess is good for kids?
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The game of chess is considered to be a powerful tool to beef up the mind of a child as well as adult. It is quite easy to learn how to play chess.
Older Adults Need Less Sleep (LiveScience.com)
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LiveScience.com - How much sleep we need is largely a mystery, and sleep seems tougher
to come by as we age. Many studies - often funded by the pharmaceutical
industry - have suggested that we're all sleep-deprived zombies,
risking our health for lack of shut-eye.
Spike TV gives go-ahead to 2 docu series (Reuters)
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Reuters - Spike TV has green-lit two documentary series, one examining the world of little-person wrestling and another focused on Brooklyn scrap-metal workers.Syfy movie series to update fairy tales (Reuters)
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Reuters - Syfy is reinventing fairy tales and pop-culture characters as part of its Saturday night TV movie franchise.Schaub shines as AFC win Pro Bowl (Reuters)
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Reuters - Matt Schaub of the Houston Texans fired two touchdown passes and was named MVP after sparking the AFC to a 41-34 victory over the NFC in the annual Pro Bowl game Sunday.Jon Stewart’s Obama quips create buzz
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Days before the 2008 election, Jon Stewart jokingly asked Barack Obama whether his "white half" would have trouble making a decision in the voting booth.
Beyonce, Taylor Share Grammy Glory
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Beyonce and Taylor Swift each made history at the Grammy Awards. Beyonce became the first female artist to win six Grammys in one night. And Swift became the youngest artist to win for Album of the Year.
Michael Jackson’s Grammy Tribute Goes Beyond Remembering His Music, Reinforces His Message
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I honestly think this presentation is closer to what Jackson would have wanted. It was not just about him, but about all of us.
Documentary offers vibrant insider’s view of Basquiat (Reuters)
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Reuters - Filling a documentary void that's surprising given the subject's fame, feature helmer Tamra Davis delivers a thoroughly engaging film about an inimitable New York painter without letting her sorrow over his early death turn the portrait maudlin or diminish its vibrancy.Review: Wife unloads secrets to brain-dead husband (AP)
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AP - "The Patience Stone" (Other Press, 160 pages, $16.95), by Atiq Rahimi: According to tradition, there's a stone to which you can vent your pain, share your secrets and unburden your soul. It listens, it absorbs, then one day, it explodes, relieving you of your suffering.