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Wife is movie star struck

In a world where images of picture-perfect celebrities are plastered everywhere, it can be alarmingly easy to fall into a movie star crush. But it sounds like you?re worried that your wife?s crush may be getting out of hand ? or, at the very least, is seriously straining your marriage. It?s not unusual to feel hurt, jealous, or confused if your partner is pining over some hot-shot with (movie) ...

Coronary heart disease: reducing your risk.

Coronary heart disease (also called CHD) is sometimes called coronary artery disease. A coronary artery is a blood vessel that carries blood to your heart. Arteries are like narrow tubes. A fatty substance called plaque can build up in your arteries, blocking or slowing the flow of blood and oxygen through them. This can happen in any artery, but when it happens in the coronary arteries, your h...

Database Design for Smarties: Using UML for Data Modeling

and Concrete Classes and Inheritance Another recap: remember that an abstract class is one that has no instances, while a concrete class is one that can have instances. An interface is an abstract class that has no attributes and that contains only abstract operations. The more general case of the abstract class may have both. Abstract classes are meaningless without generalization relationship...

Loose end: All the world's a lab … into a Director

Research Institute; I know this happened some time ago and I should have written then, but I now have so little to do that there doesn't seem to be much point in doing anything, even if I can remember to do it. No doubt you have already discovered that being the head of a large organization isn't all that it is cracked up to be, and that it is quite difficult to realize your plans. The problem ...