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After 5 years, Card folds. Serving through hurricanes, wars and recession, a weary Bush staffer steps down, and up into the 7 figure world of hidden handshakes. Are more shake-ups to come? One can only hope. For a sinkhole the size of Washington? I hope they're all there that day. Yeah, they do vacation a lot. Oh indeed, most permanently. In their paper, “Loneliness is a Unique Predictor of Age-Related Differences in Systolic Blood Pressure,” published in the March issue of the journal Psychology and Aging, the pair found lonely people between the ages of 50 and 68 had blood pressure readings that were as much as 30 points higher than non-lonely people, even when other contributing factors were taken into consideration. “Loneliness is a complex physiological phenomenon that incorporates feelings of dysphoria and stress, dissatisfaction with social support and hostility towards others,” according to the paper. It has already been associated with higher incidences of other health issues, including alcoholism, depression, and insomnia, and even impaired immune functions, according to the authors and their Mommas.