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That could be due to the suspicion with which health professionals--and many other educated adults--view the systematic pursuit of happiness. They see the happiness industry as a case of the bland leading the bland. Happiness may be an American doctrine, but it also triggers images of a blinkered, Father Knows Best '50s and of TV news anchors grinning through the latest report of troop movements or a lagging economy. To the army of skeptics, happiness is forgetting that a billion people go to bed hungry each night. Happiness is being too shallow to realize how miserable you should...
...famed La Samaritaine store, Herry Andriavaloherinaiva, 35, is looking intently through the racks of ceramic bowls and cloth napkins. Like thousands of other Parisians mobbing the stores during the after-Christmas sales, Andriavaloherinaiva is braving not just France's frosty weather but an equally chilly economic climate in his pursuit of a bargain. He is unfazed by the downturn that has led some economists to predict France's GDP growth could be as low as .9% in 2003. "I'm not worried," he says. "I still have the same spending pattern as always." But many government and industry types...
...Boston Board of Health’s ban is an abuse of power in the guise of public hygiene. The Board has misused science to further their own ends, demeaned the individual pursuit of happiness, and violated the rights of private business owners...
...emphasized the council’s pursuit of “bigger and bolder accomplishments” under her tenure. She listed many of the council’s initiatives during the past year, including reduction of Core requirements, extension of Universal Keycard Access hours, establishment of the council’s First-Year Social Committee and “the most successful Springfest to date...
Internal auditors, by definition, work in pursuit of a gotcha. So discoveries like this produce a strange "adrenaline rush," says a WorldCom audit employee, "and at the same time, there's a great sadness." Cooper's mother Patsy could see that the investigation had taken its toll. "I noticed a change in her countenance," she says. "There was no cadence to her speech. I noticed a lack of, well, it seemed to be energy...