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Relationships with friends, family, coworkers and even casual acquaintances play a crucial role in your well-being. Find out how robust your social ties are.
The Happiness Challenge: Take Stock of Your Relationships
In 1938, researchers at Harvard set out to learn what makes a person thrive. They recruited 724 participants, a combination of students at Harvard College and low-income teenage boys in Boston. All were willing to let the researchers track their lives, from childhood troubles to first loves to final days. Every five years, the researchers…
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How Central Ohio Got People to Eat Their Leftovers
Jennifer Savage was scrambling to pull something together for dinner. Deep in the back of her fridge, she found a container of stuffed peppers. Very old stuffed peppers. She groaned, then did what millions of Americans do every day, without a second thought: She scraped the rotten food into the garbage. Sitting nearby, her daughter,…
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How Should You Be? Try Taking Suggestions.
Some chapters of life attract advice. After a breakup, friends who are typically silent about your romances might urge you to get back on dating apps and block your ex on social media. Starting a family gives rise to opinions about prenatal vitamins and stroller brands; interviewing for a new job might prompt advice about…
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Their Mothers Were Teenagers. They Didn’t Want That for Themselves.
JENNINGS, Mo. — Brittnee Marsaw was born to a 15-year-old mother in St. Louis and raised by a grandmother who had given birth even younger. Half grown by the time her mother could support her, Ms. Marsaw joined her three states away but never found the bond she sought and calls the teen births of…
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New Year’s Eve D.J.s Haven’t Been This Busy Since 2019
Martin Muñiz Jr., a Bronx native who performs as Marty Rock, locked in a gig 200 miles north of New York City in Saratoga Springs four months ago, the earliest he had ever been booked for New Year’s Eve. But then this fall, more requests poured in, Mr. Muñiz said. In the end, he was…
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Tarot Readings: Insightful Entertainment For Wedding Party Guests
Theresa Fernand works with tarot cards, charms and crystals, or what she calls “tools for intuitive information, confirmation and extra validation.” “I channel and download information,” Ms. Fernand, 51, said. “I also give intuitive coaching and guidance, along with predictions.” If all this sounds more therapeutic than psychic, that’s not far from the truth. Ms.…
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New Year’s Eve 2023: The State of the Midnight Kiss
The idea behind exchanging a kiss at midnight on New Year’s Eve is rooted in a simple superstition: The way you ring in the new year will determine how the rest of your year will go. For J.C. Carter, a single 24-year-old who lives in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, it’s something he had often…
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Un timbre que anuncia esperanza
Cuando estaba embarazada de nuestro primer hijo, Sam quería saber si sería niño o niña. Iba a ser feliz de cualquier manera; solo quería estar preparado. Como padres primerizos, albergábamos la ilusión de que podíamos estar preparados para cosas como los bebés y la paternidad. Dos años más tarde, cuando esperaba a nuestro segundo hijo,…
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‘Can I Please Use Your Phone?’
As our shared pint of goat cheese and cherry ice cream was turning into a puddle, Shannon and I attempted to analyze our bizarre encounter: Why had the woman taken a bus and not a taxi? Why didn’t she have a cellphone? Why did I let her use my phone? We laughed, writing it off…
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