THE LAST TABOO

TIME (2007) 5/7

LUSCOMBE ( 86)  The last taboo is really about who marries whom! Okay, there are gay committal ceremonies, mixed race, may-december weddings, but the last one is when one partner is striking more attractive than the other. Part of this is settled when the wife is young and gorgeous and the husband is old and ....seasoned. The answer of course is that she married him for his money. It is one of the oldest strategies around. HOWEVER, what about 2 middle income couple

in which the husband is an attractive hunk and the wife is not quite ready for prime time. Surely, he married her for her money. No she doesn't have any money to speak of. Well, then she has a super skill that will make money down the road. No, that is not the case. Well, she used to look like a million. No! She is who she is and that's that. She has a tremendous personality. The guy is a stud muffin. Listen, this could go on and on and on. However, they love each other and your categorizing is crap. You got a problem?

GUPTA (76) There appears to be a correlation between heavy drinking in college and having heart problems later in life.

CULLEN (74) For a corporation to have a successful diversity program, they need to use a mentoring system.

AARP (2007) May, June

 KIRCHEIMER(74-75) Please consider the following strategies as BRIGHTENERS in your life.

They don 't beat clinical depression, but they sure make everyday blues better.  They are:

1/ ALLOW A SMILE. Don't force a smile. It doesn't work. However, you may slip up and enjoy yourself. 2/ DOG. Well they can be cats or something else. However, dogs can be the greatest. They communicate with their body and they let you hold them. 3/ SLEEP. You can't beat it.You win. Dreaming' is a damn good deal. 4/BOOKS/ Really, it is an active sport. Get good ones.

5/ MEDITATION. This means listening to a higher power or if you don't buy that listening to what is going on inside. Let the thoughts rush around. Don't fight your thoughts.

THE WEEK (2007) May 4/

_________(17) The native born Brits and new immigrant Muslims from many different places are not getting on. Nobody is really doing anything about it to fix things up. It just festers and both sides of the political spectrum ignore it.

________(19) French are excited. There are 85% voting pattern. A tory capitalist versus a socialist. For Yanks that means that the Tory is a capitalist who likes the welfare state and the socialist likes the welfare state to the point that workers get more in pensions and in power on board of directors of private companies. In other words, it is a welfare stater versus a social democratic socialist. It does not mean that if the Tory wins that everything public becomes private or if the socialist gets the upper hand, the ghost of Chairman Mao comes marching into the country. Think mild capitalism versus mild socialism. In the states, the first candidate would get thrown out of the Republican party and the second would not be able to get a job.

_________(31) The chicken is a relative of T. Rex. / big cities attract and CREATE innovative types./ abstinence programs don't work. the sex drive is too strong./ Hershey candy kisses give more of a jolt than a real kiss./ new robots are being helped to move inside the heart and the arteries./ ethanol may not be so great. causes pollution.

(52) You take a very talent violinist who is really  a virtuoso and you put them in a subway

or a sidewalk in a big city. What happens? Does s/he cause a big crowd? NOPE.

They are IGNORED. Some will throw a dollar into the pot, but that's not much. Put them in a concert hall with the same performance and pay big bucks and Bravo! Cosmetics transcends substance.