You’ve heard of Big Macs, McNuggets, McMansions and McJobs — now meet the McRunner.
Palatine dad Joe D’Amico plans to run the Los Angeles Marathon on March 20 after training for 30 days on a diet of McDonald’s fast food alone.
It may sound more like a recipe for getting the runs than running fast. But ultra-lean D’Amico aims to beat his personal best time of two hours and 36 minutes — a six-minute-mile pace that should put him among the top 50 finishers.
Madonna’s maternal grandmother Elsie Mae Fortin died at the age of 99 in her Bay City home. “I will always remember her for being very gracious and welcoming,” said the Rev. Craig Albrecht of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, which Fortin attended for the past two decades. “There were times where I would go into her house, and she would have brownies and coffee made.
In a case that is likely to set guidelines for the punishment of file-sharers in the future, a 26 year-old man from Sweden has escaped his court hearing with little more than a tap on the wrist. After being tracked by the IFPI and accused of making available 44 music tracks on the Internet, the man was taken to court last week. His punishment was a 2000 kronor fine – just $311.
File-sharers in the United States are used to hearing about mind-boggling fines handed down to the likes of Jammie Thomas-Rasset and Joel Tenenbaum. After significant legal wrangling, the proceedings against these individuals resulted in damages payable of $1.5m and $67,500 respectively, astonishing amounts for what were essentially petty file-sharing offenses.
Facebook users with more friends suffer more stress and “neurotic limbo” from feeling they have to continually update and amuse their larger audiences, according to new research.
Want to protect against the effects of Alzheimer’s? Learn another language. That’s the takeaway from recent brain research, which shows that bilingual people’s brains function better and for longer after developing the disease.
Psychologist Ellen Bialystok and her colleagues at York University in Toronto recently tested about 450 patients who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Half of these patients were bilingual, and half spoke only one language.
