The combination of strategy and memory in bridge challenges the brain to learn new information and exercises cells so they don't die, Postal says.

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The play's director, Karen Dacons-Brock, says she was disturbed to learn black women are diagnosed at later stages of their cancer and die more often than whites.

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Ironically, military enlistees, who must learn to recognize a problem (like, where a bullet is coming from) and then solve it or die, may be better equipped to compete in the real world than their academically oriented brothers and sisters!

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