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Lester said that when he set out to study stress he didn't realize that most people who are serious about mountaineering are happier in the mountains. They experience more stress in society, "trying to meet schedules and involve themselves in relationships that are ambiguous," he said...
...much happier if someone else were in this position besides me." Why, then, is he running? He describes it simply as paying his dues. "This way of life doesn't come cheaply," he says. "You have to pay something back...
...task force is necessary because "people in the establishment are happier when they know more than anyone else does about energy, because then they do not have to debate their position," Commoner said, adding, "We want to open up a debate...
Boston and Louisville demonstrated anew that Northern cities are no happier with school desegregation than their counterparts in the South. Since the historic Supreme Court decision of 1954 that separate schools can never be equal, hundreds of communities have been forced by the courts to desegregate. Most are in the South, which had dual black and white school systems for nearly a century. More recently, the N.A.A.C.P. and other civil rights organizations have successfully challenged the legality of segregated schools in the North. They argue that such official actions as building schools in all-black or all-white neighborhoods...
...increasing "psychology of entitlement" (college education for the kids, a satisfying job for oneself). So if-despite electric dishwashers to replace poorly paid domestics, and second cars and second homes for millions-people are still dissatisfied, the answer is that history records no instance of a people made happier by the knowledge that they are part of a comforting statistic...