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Americans' Stuff and Junk Obsession
Alison Stewart, a former reporter and news anchor, spent three years investigating America's unhealthy obsession with stuff. Her book, Junk: Digging Through ...
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NFL Star Reflects on Near-Death Injury
Ricardo Lockette rose up the ranks of pro football and eventually helped the Seattle Seahawks win the Super Bowl in 2014. But on November 1, 2015, the ...
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Every Christian Is Called to Pursue Bold Leadership
Claude Alexander, bishop of The Park Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, urges Christians from all walks of life to step up into bold leadership. Here's ...
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Six Ways People Find Meaning in Work
American essayist, historian, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote: "It is not enough to be industrious. So are the ants." The British science magazine ...
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We're Like an Eight-Year-Old Boy with a Broken Toy
Imagine an eight-year-old boy playing with a toy truck and then it breaks. He is disconsolate and cries out to his parents to fix it. Yet as he's crying, ...
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Children Prefer Food Covered in McDonald's Wrapper
In a study included in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine children were shown to overwhelmingly prefer the taste of food that comes in McDonald's ...
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Mt. Everest Climber Had the Wrong Goal
In his best-selling book, Into Thin Air, John Krakauer tells the story of the ill-fated expedition to the summit of Mount Everest in 1996. In the book ...
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Everyone Wants to Be King of the Hill
Public radio program This American Life ran a special report on a certain sub-culture of people whose prize possessions are their car stereos. They are ...
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Country Singer Merle Haggard's Restless Soul
Country music icon Merle Haggard (1937-2016), had 38 of his albums appear on Billboard's country-music top 10 charts (more than a dozen made it to Number ...
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Young Adults Struggling to Find Their Purpose
In a new national survey (2016), 18-24-year-olds report that having a clear purpose in life is a big part of being a "real" adult. The problem is, most ...
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