During her decades as a medical assistant, Brizendine took peeks at the soap opera "Days of Our Lives" during her lunch break.

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These are the days of our lives but only because MLB allowed the old and the restless to own a major league baseball team.

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Before the hearing, Michael Gallagher who lost his 21-year-old son, Aidan, in the bombing said victims' families needed time to "prepare for what will be some of the most difficult days of our lives".

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Creativity can be done within the soap genre, of course -- there are opportunities to "play with the format, (and) maybe the genre itself needs to be retooled to be more hip, " O'Neil says, pointing out that's how "Days of Our Lives" is staying afloat.

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These one-time toys are now so interpenetrated into our lives that these days our careers, even large parts of our personal lives, are at the mercy of our PCs.

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The next few days will be critical in the sporting lives of some of our squad, for whom this is probably the last World Cup.

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In the midst of all of our busy and noisy lives, these holy days afford us the precious opportunity to slow down and spend some quiet moments in prayer and reflection.

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Using another outstanding U.S. Government Service, NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there is unending weather information available these days for farmers and seafarers, offshore drillers, construction workers and all the rest of us living our daily lives.

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That agony burns deep in the families of thousands -- thousands of Americans who have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun over these last 100 days -- including Hadiya Pendleton, who was killed on her way to school less than two months ago, and whose mom is also here today.

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