Search Details

Word: everythinged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

If only the cure were that easy. Any doctor will tell you the advantages of having lots of patient data on computers: it helps us avoid redundant tests, gather huge amounts of information for research, screen automatically for drug interactions - and spare others from having to decipher our illegible handwriting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrong Prescription | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

By Harvey's standards, A Woman a Man Walked By is kind of a lark. You can tell because she let frequent collaborator John Parish write the music (to her lyrics) and play all the instruments; when she's serious, Harvey handles everything save the shrink-wrap. Still, it's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banshees | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

Obesity and smoking may be the most conspicuous causes of illness in this country, but physical factors don't account for everything. Your psychology - namely, your personality and outlook on life - can be just as important to your well-being as exercising and eating right. And especially these days, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Primer for Pessimists | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

Be an "Optimalist" Most people would define optimism as being eternally hopeful, endlessly happy, with a glass that's perpetually half full. But that's exactly the kind of deluded cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn't recommend. "Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality," says Tal Ben-Shahar, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Primer for Pessimists | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

Ben-Shahar, who is the author of Happier (2007) and a new book, The Pursuit of Perfect (April 2009), describes realistic optimists as "optimalists" - not those who believe everything happens for the best, but those who make the best of things that happen.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Primer for Pessimists | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

Previous | 339 | 340 | 341 | 342 | 343 | 344 | 345 | 346 | 347 | 348 | 349 | 350 | 351 | 352 | 353 | 354 | 355 | 356 | 357 | 358 | 359 | Next