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More adv anced stampers are decorating their homes with stamps. up everything from door jaing knockers and sofa pillows to ceramic tiles and vertical blinds. If it sounds a bit like Martha Stewart (indeed, she's said to have dabbled in stamping), consider that rubber stamping is one of the fastest growing crafts in the United States and Europe. "If I don't have time to rubber stamp, I'm going through withdrawal," says Marianne Merola, 34, a secretary who lives in Las Vegas. "If I come home and I'm upset about something or I've had a really bad day, I can walk in my 'stamp' room and a peace w ill just come over me. I just let out a sigh It sounds so and say. 'Ahhh It's pathetic. cray." Crazy, perhaps, but it may explain why stamping is riding a C4 .:;.'vv"i7V ! ' ''''' Reserve University in Cleve- land. In a study, the scientists divided 67 undergraduates into three groups. Members of the first group were allowed to eat chocolate chip cookies placed in front of them. Those in another group sat within reach of the cookies, but were instead offered a delectable ... radish. A third group never knew cookies were in the buildLeft alone during the experi i I Wendy Sorokowski of Plantation, Fla., left, and Linda Wales of Cooper City, Fla., work on projects in a stamping class at Artistic U., a rubber stamp store wave across the country. Why devoted stampers are trekking to in Portland. conventions Las Dallas, Vegas, Minneapolis, Chicago, Atlanta and Boston. While stamping started to catch fire in California about 15 years ago, it is just now catching on in South Florida, says Roy Stevens, an artist and stamp teacher who opened the Artistic U rubber stamp store in Tamarac, Fla., a year and a half ago. one of the States and in Tamarac, Fla. Rubber stamping is fastest growing crafts in the United 0 info P Friday. 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The researchers, who described their work recently at an American Psychological Association meeting, said the results suggest that active weakens mental strength. They did not specify, however, whether the results apply only to not eating cookies. self-contro- Pi niiiiISffliiiiEl Study finds sweet temptation makes concentration crumble Dallas Morning News The Cookie Monster may not be a model of l, but he could probably beat the superwaifs of the world in a game of chess. Resisting temptation, though virtuous, may leave less energy for completing mental tasks, say researchers from Case Western i un |