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Archive for May, 2009
May 1st, 2009
May 1st, 2009
Phase Two
This couple found success with second careers on the road
Linda: We met at age 15 and have been together ever since, so we tell people that basically we’ve been married our whole lives. I was working as a hairdresser, and Larry was working at a mill when our son graduated from high school, and we decided that we wanted to spend more time together. We like to travel and get out and go, so we thought driving a truck would be the thing.Larry: When we started we didn’t know anybody in the business, and it was hard to find anyone who would tel…
May 1st, 2009
Songs About Me
Trucking tunes make a country comeback
In the late 1970s, pop culture was captivated with trucking, thanks to a catchy country song called “Convoy.” The intersection of twang and trucking wasn’t necessarily new — it dates back to the 1930s, when trucking tunes were a logical outgrowth of work songs about coal miners and railroad men. But something about that moment in history made trucking a hot topic in country music.And if a spate of recent releases is any indication, the trend may be headed for a comeback…
May 1st, 2009
Reasons to Smile
A detailed process for determining delight
You know what to do if you’re happy and you know it. But what if you don’t actually realize you’re happy? The website www.happier.com recently created a gratitude journal application for the iPhone. The idea is to input three positive events that happened that day, then answer 24 questions for a happiness score. The app even has an introduction by professor and happiness expert Dr. Martin Seligman. “When things go well, we tend to forget them. When things go badly, we r…
May 1st, 2009
Speaking Span-ish
One day, our bridges may talk
Today, bridge inspectors rely mostly on their eyes to determine if a structure is sound. But what if the bridge could talk, pointing out its stress points before they cracked? That is the goal of a five-year, $19-million engineering project to create “smart” bridges. An infrastructure monitoring system is being developed at the University of Michigan, with plans to install them on several test bridges. The system will include several different types of surface and penetrating sensor…
