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Name: Nicholas Country: United States State: Florida Metro: Tallahassee Birthday: 11/25/1987 Gender: Male
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| Sex stimulates intellect 03/30/2004 10:51 German scientists claim that regular sex makes people smarter
Everyone is aware that sex is a rather pleasant activity. Scientists as well praise sex and discover more and more healthy advantages of it. Indeed, it is good for the body and soul, incredibly healthy in all aspects. German scientists went even further declaring that regular sex makes people smarter.
Leading specialists from the Medical research Center in Hamburg managed to draw such strange correlation between one"s physical and intellectual capabilities. According to the author of such fascinating research study Mr. Werner Habermel, regular sexual intercourses stimulate development of one's intellect.
However, you should not get carried away thinking that it is possible to get smarter simply by doing what you enjoy the most. Sex will not make you Einstein. Nonetheless, there is some truth to Habermel's reasoning.
The scientist claims that such substances as adrenalin and hydrocortisone (hormone of adrenal gland) are secreted in large quantities during foreplay and sexual intercourse. Together, these substances stimulate the grey matter of the brain, which in turn stimulates intellectual activity.
Obviously, one should not wholeheartedly stick to Habermel's assumptions. Hormones will always be hormones, and we should refrain ourselves from such important sources of knowledge as books. Therefore, we suggest that instead of inviting your girlfriend over for a night before finals, you should review your notes and study hard. In the end, neither the German scientist nor your girlfriend will be responsible for your grade.
Alena Furman
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An alternative to the Iraqi election |
| 02/02/2005 17:13 |
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I know most political columnists around the country will be writing about the historic national election that took place in Iraq on Sunday. Conservative columnists will be applauding the huge success of the election, while liberals and the rest of the mainstream media will be doing what they do best: whining, crying and complaining. My original plan was not to write about the Iraqi election. To tell you the truth, I am tired of reading and hearing commentary about the election. I know it was historical. I support the election and Iraqi freedom fully, but enough already. Four weeks of build up prior to the election and now the constant news coverage are just a little too much to handle. I am sure there are others who feel the same way. So I decided to write a column about something far more serious: Sex Bombs. Okay, maybe Sex Bombs are not as serious as the Iraqi election, but you must admit the subject does get your attention. I wrote about half of the Sex Bomb column last week, but after watching "Meet the Press" on Sunday, I decided to take another approach to the column at the last minute. Had I finished my Sex Bomb column, it would have contained some of the following: Every former United States president has left behind a legacy. Most people in the United States know that George Washington is the "Father of our Country" and Abraham Lincoln is credited with "Saving the Union". But few know that William Jefferson Clinton can now claim the legacy of being the father of the "Sex Bomb". What a fitting legacy for Clinton. Newly declassified documents reveal that the Pentagon considered developing non-lethal chemical weapons during the Clinton administration. One idea developed by scientists at the US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio was to develop a chemical weapon that attracts large swarms of wasps or rats to enemy positions to make them uninhabitable. Scientists also thought of developing a Sex Bomb containing an aphrodisiac that would be dropped on enemy locations. The aphrodisiac in the weapon would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. The theory being that this would cause widespread homosexual behavior among the troops and would cause a distasteful blow to morale. I bet many of you are thinking the same thing: What is a distasteful blow to morale and did President Clinton come up with the idea of the Sex Bomb while working with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office? I guess we will never know. Like I said, I planned on writing about the Sex Bomb, but I had to change my plans at the last minute and rewrite my column. Why the change of plans? Simple, a lamebrain Senator from the state of Massachusetts had to say something idiotic on national television, the day of the Iraqi election. Thanks for all the extra work, Senator Kerry. Kerry, the big loser in the last presidential election is still proving that he does not have the skill or intelligence to be President of the United States. I wonder if he should even be a United States Senator. During an interview with "Meet the Press", and speaking about the historical Iraq election were millions of Iraqis voted for the first time, Kerry said, "No one in the United States should try to over hype this election." Over hype the election? How can he think the American people would "over hype" the Iraqi election? Most of us see the election for what it is: A victory over terrorism and a victory over liberal naysayer's like John F. Kerry. Not to mention a big win for President Bush. Since Kerry warns of "over hyping" the election, it is fair to say he considers the election mundane. And, since he thinks the election was commonplace, I wonder if he would have had the courage to take his three purple hearts and his silver star to Iraq and stand in line with Iraqi women in a polling station on Election Day. I doubt it. I think he would have been shaking in his expensive Italian shoes. Okay sorry, I guess I am being a little hard on the Senator. I sometimes forget that liberals look at things differently than most normal people. In fact, I must now admit that the United States had other options available and should have not invaded Iraq. President Bush could have freed the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein without risking the lives of people in our military. He should have explored all the options before the invasion. President Bush should have dropped Bill Clinton's Sex Bomb on Iraq. At least all the liberals would be happy. But, I bet most Iraqis would prefer the invasion.
Steve Darnell
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The profound emotion on reading news of war, which aroused
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patriotic feelings and a sense of sadness at being so distant |
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from my country, found some alleviation in the delight with which |
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I steeped myself in Russian folk poems. |
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What fascinated me in this verse was not so much the |
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stories, which were often crude, or the pictures and metaphors, |
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always so deliciously unexpected, as the sequence of the words |
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and syllables, and the cadence they create, which produces an |
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effect on one’s sensibilities very closely akin to that of music. |
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For I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially |
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powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an |
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attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, |
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etc. . . . statement has never been an inherent property of |
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music. That is by no means the purpose of its existence. If, as |
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is nearly always the case, music appears to express something, |
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this is only an illusion and not a reality. It is simply an |
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additional attribute which, by tacit agreement, we have lent it, |
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thrust upon it, as a label, a convention – in short, an aspect |
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that unconsciously or by force of habit we have come to confuse |
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with its essential being. |
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present. |
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By the imperfection of his nature, man is doomed to submit to |
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the passage of time—to its categories of past and future—without |
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ever being able to give substance, and therefore stability, to |
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the category of the present. |
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The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose |
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of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, |
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the coordination between man and time. To be put into practice, |
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its indispensable and single requirement is construction. |
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Construction once completed, this order has been attained, and |
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there is nothing more to be said. It would be futile to look for, |
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or expect anything else from it. It is precisely this |
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construction, this achieved order, which produces in us a unique |
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emotion having nothing in common with our ordinary sensations and |
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our responses to the impressions of daily life. One could not |
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better define the sensation produced by music than by saying that |
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it is identical with that evoked by contemplation of the |
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interplay of architectural forms. Goethe thoroughly understood |
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that when he called architecture petrified music.
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| Alright, picture me shirtless with plaid pants and slippers rockin' in my room playin' some new U2 on my Washburn, dog tags flyin' everywhere, room full of sound, illuminated solely by the neon blue guitar on my wall. Then I grab my bass and start layin' down some Green Day and Fuggazzi. Then, picture it not happening. 'Cause right now its not, and man do I really miss it. One week without touching the instruments. Wow. Mara and Amy would be stunned.
Drama districts rocked. We got a superior on our pantomime "Office Escape" and it definatly is kooler then thou. Goin' to see "Beetle Mania, Again" at the Alhambra next weekend. Stoked about that. Other then that, usual stress levels and nothing special to report. Adios.
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