Though most of us spend a lifetime pursuing happiness, new research is showing that that goal may be largely out of our control. Two new studies this month add to a growing body of evidence that factors like genes and age may impact our general well-being more than our best day-to-day attempts at joy
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The Occult Revival: A Substitute Faith
It is Saturday night. A young Army officer and his wife welcome a small group of people to their comfortable split-level home, which stands amid the tidy landscaping of a housing development in Louisville.
The Hidden Secrets of the Creative Mind
What is creativity?
Behavior: Older Parents: Good for Kids?
“Put off today what you can do tomorrow” has long been the motto of many baby boomers. Until, that is, the biological clock began its inexorable countdown.
Efforts Rising to Ordain Women as Roman Catholic Priests
Alta Jacko is the mother of eight children. She is also an ordained priest in the Roman Catholic Church.
The Personality Genes
Molecular biologist Dean Hamer has blue eyes, light brown hair and the goofy sense of humor of a stand-up comic.
On NATO’s 60th Birthday, Its Future Is Looking Cloudy
So, what exactly is NATO’s purpose?
A Web of Deceit
Heard the one about the common shampoo ingredient that causes cancer?
The Ways of Opus Dei
In early March, Elizabeth Heil, an arts-administration graduate student at Columbia University, was watching previews in a movie theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side when she cracked up inappropriately.
Milestones: Nov. 11, 1929
Engaged. Helen Douglas Robinson, daughter of onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.