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Two Extremes of What We Really Need
What do human beings really need? At one tragic extreme, at least 700 million people do not have access to clean water. Every year, half a million children ...
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Psychiatrists Identify 'The Paris Effect'
Psychiatrists call it "The Paris Effect." It simply means the disappointment that many first-time visitors to Paris experience after hyped up ...
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Passengers Love Their Bags More Than Life
On Tuesday, September 8th, 2015, a British Airways jet caught fire at the Las Vegas airport, sending smoke billowing into the air, after suffering what ...
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Billionaire Tweets About His Emptiness
In 2014, software giant Microsoft paid $2.5 billion to acquire Mojang AB, the Swedish company that created the worldwide gaming sensation Minecraft. The ...
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Novelist Amy Tan on Pressure from Mom
The New York Times interviewed the Chinese novelist Amy Tan, a woman who has written some powerful books about the immigrant and minority experience in ...
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Envy Leads to Man's Downfall
Through a Rotary Club sponsored program, Clayton Lush had built schools at villages in the Solomon Islands. He also hosted a Christmas carols show for ...
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Pet Rock Inventor Regrets Invention
In the mid-'70s, an unknown editor named Gary Dahl was talking with his friends, who were complaining about all the work involved in caring for pets—feeding ...
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Actress Jennifer Lawrence on Her Anxiety
The actress Jennifer Lawrence, famous for her role in The Hunger Games films, has had a long battle with anxiety and insecurity. In a 2014 interview, ...
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Bob Dylan Reflects on the Nature of Happiness
In an interview in AARP magazine, singer and poet Bob Dylan talked about his new music, life on the road, and true happiness. Towards the end of the interview ...
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We Can't Have 'Ordinary' Experiences Anymore
Joe Queenan, writer for the New York Times and GQ, criticizes what he calls our culture's "inability to accept the ordinary." Queenan says ...
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