Olympian Runner Shares One Secret to His Success—Rest

Bernard Lagat knows a lot about long-distance running. Lagat, a Kenyan-born citizen of the U.S., is a four-time Olympian. He owns seven American records, ...

Statistics Reveal How We Spend Our Leisure Time

According to the 2012 "American Time Use Study" conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American full-time worker has exactly 2 ...

The Mall of America Is Our Favorite Tourist Attraction

In a discussion about what lies at the heart of American culture, scholar David Henderson says, "America's favorite tourist attraction, beating ...

Farmers Need to Pause and Sharpen Their Blades

Once, when my wife, Gail, and I were hiking the high meadows of the Swiss Alps, we saw two farmers cutting the high-standing mountain grasses with scythes, ...

Cancer-stricken Author Learns to Walk at Turtle Speed

When Bruce Feiler, the best-selling author of nine books, got the devastating diagnosis of bone cancer in his thigh, his twin daughters were three-years-old. ...

Measuring Time by Opportunities, Not by the Clock

Gregory Spencer writes in Awakening the Quieter Virtues:

One of the louder virtues in American culture is efficiency. It's what makes the clock of ...

The High Cost of Hard Living

Researcher Mark Bellis of Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool, England, collected statistics concerning 1,064 rock stars from the United States ...

Jail Becomes Luxury Hotel

Boston's Charles Street jail used to be home to the city's most notorious characters. Among its former inmates was Frank Abagnale, Jr., the con ...

Connoisseurs Pay Top Dollar for Questionable Delicacy

People will pay top dollar for anything, as long as they think it's a rare treat.

Taiwanese coffee farmers have long been pestered by Formosan rock ...

Children Play with a Bomb

Children will play with virtually anything they get their hands on. It's no surprise, then, that when Dutch children in the town of Barneveld uncovered ...