There is an old joke:<BR><BR>A linguistics professor told his class "in English, a double negative forms a positive. In some languages though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative.

(CNN) -- It turns out children really are listening to what you say. Children who overheard someone saying negative words about a particular group of people developed negative biases toward them, ...

Why is all the news so negative? Maybe it’s because journalists are naturally drawn to aberrations — outliers from the norm — and those tend to be more bad than good. After all, a flight landing ...