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...bulk and reuse their plastic sandwich bags. Patricia O'Leary, a bookkeeper from East Brunswick, New Jersey, has read 20 simple-living books and subscribes to three simplicity newsletters, which she says have helped her and her husband Daniel wipe out a $19,000 credit-card debt. "We're happier now," she says, "and we have more time for the kids [who get new toys only for Christmas and birthdays]. We used to have take-out food three nights a week. Now we usually get a pizza delivered on Fridays...
Buell says student attendance at guest lectures could benefit both the candidate and the students, making the visit to campus a "happier event--more welcoming, diverse...
...bedside manner, however. CareData reports that customers who were pleased with their HMOs tended to think the medical care was better than the customer service. At the same time, healthier patients may find it easier to have confidence in HMOS. The survey found that younger patients tended to be happier than older ones with complex life-threatening problems like cancer...
...easy to draw the obvious lesson from these test results. How much happier would we be, how much more successful as individuals and civil as a society, if we were more alert to the importance of emotional intelligence and more adept at teaching it? From kindergartens to business schools to corporations across the country, people are taking seriously the idea that a little more time spent on the "touchy-feely" skills so often derided may in fact pay rich dividends...
Perhaps nobody will be happier about the wane of the English tourist season than Prince William. The heir to the British throne just began his first year at Eton, long a side attraction to Windsor Castle. But now, according to British papers, double-decker bus tours slow when they pass the school and local entrepreneurs sell T shirts reading where there's a will...