New Zealand Woman Breaks World Record, Runs For 311 Miles In 81 Hours Without Sleeping

For someone who does not especially enjoy running, Kim Allan is pretty good at it. Allan, a 47-year-old mother of four from New Zealand, recently broke the record for running without sleep, covering 311 miles in 86 nonstop hours. For Allan, it's not the running that she enjoys, per se, it's the mental stimulus. "There's ultra runners who go out and train huge miles - that’s not me," she told a local reporter. "It’s the beating my own mind...

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10 things never say to a man

To you, it's just a few words. To him, it's a short sentence that he'll never, ever forget. Here, the seemingly innocent observations that can really rock a relationship. "I really don't respect you."  "My wife and I probably use the word 'respect' about as much as we use the word 'love.' Both words were in our wedding vows," says Dave, 36, about why the R-word is just as important to him as the L-word. "And when I hear that she doesn't...

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What's the etiquette of 'Selfies' at funeral?

On its face, the now-viral photo of Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt taking a "selfie" with President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron—at amemorial service for anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, no less—looks wildly inappropriate. And no question, President Obama has taken a lot of media heat for participating. (It didn't help that the expression on Michelle Obama's face appeared to be...

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