Why cry over 'Someone'?

Stephan Pennington, an assistant professor of music at Tufts University, says songs most likely to make people cry combine emotional lyrics with music that amplifies those feelings. "Music can do that any number of ways,'' he said, "from using instruments we associate with sadness, like swelling string sections, to crafting music with dark minor harmonies.'' One of the things that makes "Someone ...

Show Us Your Heart! Dunkin' Donuts is Looking for Metro New York* Area Residents Who Are Making a Positive Difference

NEW YORK, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- February is known for all sorts of expressions of the heart, but do you know someone in the Metro New York* area who is showing true heart and making a real difference ...

Abilene police and fire blotter 02/07/2012

Incident reports released Monday by the Abilene Police Department:

NFL MVP: Predicting the Top 8 Candidates for 2012-13 NFL MVP

It’s at least theoretically possible that someone other than a quarterback could win next year’s NFL MVP award. After all, it has happened before. As recently as the 2005 and 2006 seasons, running backs won the award back-to-back, Shaun Alexander of the Seahawks and LaDainian Tomlinson of the Chargers. But since no one other than a running back or quarterback has won the award since 1982 when ...

Advice for O'Brien: How to succeed a legend

EVEN BEFORE the scandal broke at Penn State and led to his ouster, it was inevitable that the day would come when Joe Paterno would be gone and someone else would be running the Nittany Lions football program. No one could foresee the circumstances of how