For anger, sadness and concentration, the detailed ways that blind people moved their faces were significantly more similar to those of their family members than to those of strangers.

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Calming odors : The presence of family members, friends and even total strangers can reduce tension and anxiety during stressful situations.

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These sites, with names like Prosper.com, Zopa, Lending Club and GlobeFunder, use social networking tools and other software to simplify the borrowing and lending of capital between strangers and even family and friends.

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It is as though total strangers had the job of running your family budget and ended up spending the money you earned on their own overhead.

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The benefits of their faith extend from themselves to teammates, family members and complete strangers in innumerable and significant ways.

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They argue that Psiphon was created solely for the purpose of helping friends and family members in countries with censorship, not for inviting strangers to hijack your computer.

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Dozens have posted comments on a Facebook tribute page set up in Clark's honor, some of them from people who knew him and his family personally and others from strangers wishing to thank him for his service.

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"Despite the much-welcomed support from friends and strangers alike, the emotional, financial and psychological impact of extradition on all the family is hard to overstate, " she said.

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She had wanted to think of him at home, with his family and his girl, not alone in some foreign city, among strangers.

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