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By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsAt the corner of 125th Street and Joshua Avenue, you're more likely to run into a coyote than a commuter. On 115th Street and Sequoia Boulevard, you won't see many signs of civilization -- let alone sequoias. Just miles of desert and distant mountains. You wouldn't know it at the intersection of 20th Street and Snake Avenue, but you're standing inside the city with the third biggest footprint in California behind Los Angeles and San Diego. Half a century ago, California City was advertised as the next great West Coast metropolis, a new retirement mecca that could rival Palm Springs. But 45 ...
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By Ria Misra - Politics Daily"Wouldn't it be fine bein' lonely together?" -- Barry Manilow It's not often that science comes in to justify the truth of old Barry Manilow songs, but a new joint study from the University of Chicago, Harvard and the University of California-San Diego suggests that we really do get lonelier together. The study, published in the December issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, reports that loneliness is contagious not only to friends, but to friends of friends. While people's friends and acquaintances were susceptible to feeling increased loneliness, though, family members ...
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