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• "I think all we need is three people to talk with from time to time. One of them a realist, one an idealist, and the other a romanticist."--from Allura
• Ten Tricks to Teach Your Body: 2. Experience supersonic hearing!

  If you're stuck chatting up a mumbler at a cocktail party, lean in with your right ear. It's better than your left at following the rapid rhythms of speech, according to researchers at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. If, on the other hand, you're trying to identify that song playing softly in the elevator, turn your left ear toward the sound. The left ear is better at picking up music tones.

• Fans still gather to celebrate John Lennon's life at Strawberry Fields.
  
• British courts outlaw use of evidence gained in torture.
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