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...early 40s, opted for an earlier than expected retirement after a FORTUNE 500 company bought their small real estate insurance business and imposed heavy demands that strained the couple's relationship. The choice has required them to live on a tighter budget, but they are closer than ever and happier. "Now I can't afford to play golf, but golf was like an escape for me," Howard says. "I don't need that escape...
...simply, Standard Time has no reasonable justification. Since Sunday’s clock rollback, there are four-and-a-half hours of sunlight after noon, and five-and-a-half before. DST reverses this. Having more sunlight in the afternoon gives us more waking hours to exercise, makes people happier, and has been shown to cut electricity usage and even lower traffic fatalities. Even the economy is better, as retailers sell more when there is more afternoon sunlight...
Year-long Daylight Saving Time is green, safe, and economically sound, and based on personal experience it will make people happier. Long live sunny afternoons...
...Maternity Hospital, there's at least one encouraging sign. Dao Thi Kim Oanh already has a 5-year-old daughter, and she says she saw the disappointment in her mother-in-law's eyes when she learned the second baby was another girl. But Oanh, 41, couldn't be happier. "Wanting only boys is the old way of thinking," she says, protectively curling an arm around her bulging tummy. "I hope that when my daughters grow up, it won't matter to anyone if their children are boys or girls...
...There’s this strong man version of libertarian principles which says that we have rules and rights and we do everything by these rules and rights,” says Miron. “And when you ask them why, they say, well people are happier with these rights. That’s a consequentialist view. What we’re doing is talking about the consequentialist’s arguments...