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Reality television programs have dealt with this actual reality in a number of ways: They liven up the more mundane moments of everyday life with high-stakes competition, exotic locales, or the prospect of fame, no matter how faint (see: “The Surreal Life??). Some combine all three of these things...
...book, at times, feels like little more than a compilation of the author’s best clips. Though they show that Samuels can write almost everything about almost anything, the book’s somewhat haphazard construction obscures his message about how we can live the good life??or, at least, how it is that we’re failing...
...Heart” is not that Samuels fails to tap into the palpable uncertainty that regulates our lives, but that he overloads us with extraneous phrases and superfluous essays and so violates our need for order and regularity. Ultimately, with Samuels’ book—much as in life??we are left clinging on to particular moments that we find significant and pocket-sized absolutes...
...personality tests to place respondents on a spectrum between optimistic and pessimistic, concluding that in all of the categories examined, people who were deemed to be more optimistic fared better than those deemed to be more pessimistic. “People who are optimistic have a good outlook on life??they treat themselves better, take better care of themselves, and live longer,” said Harvey B. Simon, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the author of the article profiling the studies. “The bottom line seems to be that people with...
...eventuality,” and that he wants to be part of a collaborative effort to bring about change in Zimbabwe. While Mrema has ruled out running for office, Delle sees himself working in the social, political and economic sectors of Ghanaian life??like his father and grandfather...