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If you haven't started yet, great. 26 year old Gray Powell, who works at Apple as an engineer did the most stupid thing when drunk on German ale. He lost a prototype 4th generation iPhone at a bar in California where he was celebrating his birthday. We all know how stringent and secretive Apple is about product leaks. Funnily, the last Facebook status he updated from the iPhone read, "I underestimated how good German beer is." His fate at Apple Inc. is unknown.

Beautiful Women Bad for Health

Just five minutes alone with an attractive female raises the levels of cortisol, the body's stress hormone, according to a study from the University of Valencia, Spain. Cortisol is produced by the body under physical or psychological stress and has been linked to heart disease.
 
Researchers tested 84 male students by asking each one to sit in a room and solve a Sudoku puzzle. Two strangers, one male and one female, were also in the room. When the female stranger left the room and the two men remained sitting together, the volunteer's stress levels did not rise. However, when the volunteer was left alone with the female stranger, his cortisol levels rose.

Although cortisol can have a positive effect in small doses, improving alertness and well-being, chronically elevated cortisol levels can worsen medical conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and impotency.

Parents suffer from depression too

Therapists for years have listened to patients blame parents for their problems. Now there is growing interest in the other side of the story: What about the suffering of parents who are estranged from their adult children?

A number of websites and online chat rooms are devoted to the issue, with heartbreaking tales of children who refuse their parents' phone calls and e-mail and won't let them see grandchildren. Some parents seek grief counseling, while others fall into depression and even contemplate suicide.

Joshua Coleman, a San Francisco psychologist who is an expert on parental estrangement, says it appears to be growing more and more common, even in families who haven't experienced obvious cruelty or traumas like abuse and addiction. Instead, parents often report that a once-close relationship has deteriorated after a conflict over money, a boyfriend or built-up resentments about a parent's divorce or remarriage.

(via NYTimes)