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How strongly people's mental health and life satisfaction correlated with their proximities to parks and gardens
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Why the Boston Marathon bombings brought the United States together
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Today the Boy Scouts of America "called to end" its ban on gay members.
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Sometimes financial crises can force lifestyle changes for the better.
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Many titans of industry spend much of their lives asleep under their desks.
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Our bodies anticipate the effects of beer, releasing euphoric signals even before alcohol gets into our blood. Hence, "It's so good, once it hits your lips, it's so good."
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The sequestration means many promising research trials will go unfunded. That immediately undermines a sense of hope for some patients with incurable conditions.
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A disaster-response behavioral health specialist discusses priorities.
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After the death of a homosexual man in West Hollywood this weekend, a city councilman conjured and addressed potential homophobic misunderstanding. Bacterial meningitis is an equal-opportunity pestilence.
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Sex-abuse prevention educators want children to understand that "private parts" are private in that they're off limits to others. But they also want students to be comfortable talking about them, in what linguists call "standard" dialect for body parts, rather than euphemisms and colloquialisms
The world may never run out of oil—and the consequences could be dire. Plus: avoiding the worst parts of death, Henry Kissinger's statesmanship, reconsidering hair metal, and more.
