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Adults find Geomag as addictive as children do, making it the ideal office gift for cubicle art or a desk accessory. Geomag is available in the children's department at Neiman Marcus. Sets range from a box of 42 pieces priced at $20 to an $850 collector's edition containing 1,450 pieces.
High stress, high risk
Young adults who don't like to wait in line, become irritated at slowpokes in traffic, eat too quickly or feel pressed for time have an increased risk of developing high blood pressure, a new study says. Conducted by researchers at Northwestern University and two other institutions, the project is an attempt to examine the links between a typical "Type A" personality and heart disease. Studies on the subject have been inconsistent, so researchers have tried to distinguish various components of Type A including impatience, anger and hostility for separate study.
The scientists tracked more than 3,000 men and women for 15 years, and, after taking into account known influences on high blood pressure, the researchers found that people with the highest scores in impatience were more than twice as likely to develop high blood pressure as their laid-back peers.
Love with flippers
The holidays could spark a little puppy love at Sea Life Park — for sea lion pups, that is. Kimokeo 'I'i'i, a nearly 6-month-old male sea lion, arrived Dec. 10 in Hawai'i after being rescued by the Friends of the Sea Lion Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, Calif. Pacific Air Cargo and Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays paid for the pup's trip and named him Kimokeo 'I'i'i, "Little Timothy," in honor of Pleasant Hawaiian CEO Tim Irwin.
The pup will learning the ropes from a baby girl pup and her mother, Hanai, at Sea Life Park. The little girl, about the same age as her potential boyfriend, will be named by the winner of the Pepsi Baby Sea Lion Contest Dec. 29.
The mom and baby are known to be extremely affectionate, Sea Life Park animal curator Mike Osborn said.
The park's holiday wish is for Little Timothy to and his new little friend to bark beautiful music together.
Here's hoping love is in the water.
