Software engineer is top U.S. “mental athlete”

Posted by admin on 09.03.2008 | Memory

By Christine Kearney
Sat Mar 8, 8:03 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 31-year-old software engineer recalled the correct order of an entire deck of playing cards in 2 minutes and 27 seconds on Saturday to take the title of having the best memory in the United States.
Chester Santos of San Francisco beat two other finalists […]

Drew Barrymore donates $1 million to feed Kenyan kids

Posted by admin on 04.03.2008 | Giving back

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress Drew Barrymore donated $1 million of her own money on Monday to the World Food Programme that the U.N. agency said would be used to feed thousands of schoolchildren in Kenya.
Barrymore, 33, a WFP ambassador against hunger, announced her pledge on The Oprah Winfrey Show to kick off the agency’s […]

Fields of Dreams

Posted by admin on 04.03.2008 | Inspiration

With hard work and unsinkable optimism, Reynaldo Robledo went from migrant worker to owner of a California winery.
By Kenneth Miller
From Reader’s Digest May 2007
Very Hard Workers
Reynaldo Robledo is driving his Toyota 4 x 4 along a quiet farm road through a Sonoma Valley vineyard. Squads of pickers move down rows laden with plump fruit, stopping […]

Americans are working harder on less sleep: poll

Posted by admin on 04.03.2008 | Work

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Steve Nichols, a middle manager at a technology company in Ohio, gets home late from work and spends most evenings sending work-related e-mails.
Like many other Americans he is working more and sleeping less which could have an impact on their professional and personal lives.
A new survey by the National […]