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Novelist Amy Tan on Pressure from Mom
The New York Times recently interviewed the Chinese novelist Amy Tan, a woman who has written some powerful books about the immigrant and minority experience ...
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Decline in Sleeping Hours Reduces Productivity
According to Charles Czeisler, the chief of the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, over the past five decades ...
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Madonna Feels Like a 'Gerbil on a Wheel'
Everyone does think of me as impenetrable and/or superhuman, and maybe that's the way it goes if you've lasted for more than three decades. ...
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How to Nap Like a Pro
A good night's sleep does a body good (see what I did there?). But evidence is growing that napping is also a very important discipline."… ...
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Landon Donovan on the Fickleness of Praise
Former pro soccer star Landon Donavan was the standard-bearer of American soccer for more than a decade. When Donovan was growing up in California, he ...
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'Fatigue Flaw' Leads to Airline Crash
On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 was cruising blandly along on autopilot at thirty-seven thousand feet a seven-foot number one fan disk broke ...
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Lack of Rest Causes Spike in Athlete Injuries
In 2013 The New York Daily News reported that many orthopedic surgeons have noticed a disturbing trend—a serious spike in debilitating knee injuries ...
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Self-Medicating the Pain of Perfectionism
In an article in The Atlantic, Ann Dowsett Johnston writes honestly about what she calls "the tyrannical myth of perfection." Here's how one of Johnston's ...
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Whitney Houston Wondered, "Am I Good Enough?"
Whitney Houston was the most-awarded female recording artists of all time. She seemed to have it all, and yet her friend and costar Kevin Costner shared ...
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Baseball Pitcher Achieves Perfection … at a Cost
On April 12, 2012, the White Sox's pitcher Philip Humber pitched a perfect game. That is, he retired 27 batters in a row. No walks, no hits. It's a feat ...
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