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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (7690)	12/18/2003 12:36:25 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

Come on..... The Post? <gg>...How silly. Hey, I can't help it if the Village Voice chose not to report the story. Amercian Spirit's sudden conversion to the Dean crusade last week and his subsequent regression qualified as my entertainment highlight for the week. Fear drove him back to the towering hulk of Kerry. As it turns out, his fear of new experiences may have some health consequences. The following is from U.S. News & World Report. Sorry, no link. Scaredy-Rats Being afraid of new experiences may shorten your life. Researchers at the University of Chicago put rats in containers with new objects, like a rock of a food bin, to see how they would react. The brave rats that investigated their new environs and wandered widely lived a median of 701 days, compared with 599 days for their shy and nervous brothers. The fearful rats also produced more corticosterone, a hormone involved in stress response, says the report in last week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Carrying around more of that hormone may have made the scaredy-rats age faster. --Helen Fields