some friends

You have different social needs so you have different friends. You dance with some, talk to some, call some in the middle of the night and chat away the hours with others. You remember some when you're happy, some when you're sad. That's just what we all do as people; but whether it's conscious or not I can't say ...

divorce and cancer

"It seems to be worse for your marriage to get cancer early," said Astri Syse, an epidemiologist at the Norwegian Cancer Registry who led the study. But Syse said that it was only cervical and testicular cancer that produced a spike in divorces. Other types of cancer did not result in more divorces.

Age also helped.

At age 20, women were 69 per cent more likely to get divorced if they had cervical cancer. But by age 60, that risk dropped to 19 per cent. The same trend was seen in men with testicular cancer. At 20, men with testicular cancer had an increased divorce risk of 34 per cent. That fell to 16 per cent for men aged 60.

- source

these days!

We have a saying in Farsi, you can hear the truth from children, so listen to this carefully. He makes so much sense with such simple logic! But then, Ahmadinejad never seizes to surprise me in one way or the other; the translator actually makes him sound good!

goodbye

They say writing is therapeutic; after a few months my parents are leaving today. I was so busy during the summer I didn't get to see them much ...

کار فرهنگی

میگن صدتا پسر امام حسین یه شوهر شمر نمی شه. من تازه یاد گرفتم که این حرف در تحسین و تمجید شوهر است!؟

romance in sand

let's dance

I am taking Belly dancing for the fun and Flamenco for the challenge ...

failed gene therapy

Now this is what I was worried about! I should agree though that there's a difficult choice between waiting for all the answers and using trial medication.

smart move

Talk about a career change, Al Gore just won an Emmy for Current TV!

tonight

I will go to bed early, keep my fingers crossed and try as hard as I can; there are no bounds but there are limits to human power.

careful people, careful!

"Certainly within five, and absolutely within 10 years, it will become relatively common for people to have their genome sequenced as part of their entire health profile," predicted Venter who has just published his genome map on the web. It's exciting, but I think we should be wary of the power that comes with this knowledge!

understanding

There are things you understand right away, things you understand after a while, and things you never understand. Then there are people who know they understood, those who know they will understand one day and those who will never understand. The troublesome part is that the last group usually don't get that it's their issue, and that there is a line between understanding and agreeing with something.

goals

I can't remember where I read this, goals may be:

• positive or negative (I want this to happen or I don't want this to happen)
  
• general or specific
  
• clear or unclear
• simple or multiple
• implicit or explicit

But I now realize that it is very important to know what kind of a goal you are looking at so you know how to deal with it!