Posted: 7:46:42 AM  

Lasting change was found in the part of the personality known as openness, which includes traits related to imagination, aesthetics, feelings, abstract ideas and general broad-mindedness. The changes were bigger than what one might normally expect to occur over decades.

Nearly all of the participants in the new study considered themselves spiritually active (participating regularly in religious services, prayer or meditation).

More than half had postgraduate degrees. Volunteers were considered to be psychologically healthy.

Posted: 7:25:44 AM  

The 84f (29c) temperatures seen in parts of the country trumped the Costa del Sol, Turkey and even Mexico.
And it smashed the previous record for a balmy September 29, when the mercury hit 81.5f (27.5c) in York in 1895, the year of the Dreyfus Affair and the first moving picture.

Posted: 7:19:43 AM