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  • Skip Mandarin Class, Choose Latin Instead

    Skip Mandarin Class, Choose Latin Instead0

    In 1989, Japanese businessman Minoru Isutani purchased Pebble Beach’s famous golf course for $850 million, and Mitsubishi Estate Company paid $846 million for 51 percent of New York’s Rockefeller Center. The United States cowered from the kamikaze attack of Japanese capital on American business. American students swamped Japanese language programs, as the Land of the Rising

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  • Six Ways to Teach and Practice Gratitude

    Six Ways to Teach and Practice Gratitude1

    Kindness means thinking of others and acting in ways that contribute to their happiness. Complaining certainly doesn’t do that.  If you’ve been trying to make kindness part of your family culture and there’s still a lot of complaining, it’s time to take further steps to teach and practice gratitude.  Here are 6: 1. Discuss as a family

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  • Six Things We Know About the CIA’s Secret Mass Surveillance Program

    Six Things We Know About the CIA’s Secret Mass Surveillance Program0

    The Central Intelligence Agency has secretly been running mass surveillance operations to collect data on Americans, according to a newly published letter written by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.). Wyden and Henrich, both members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote the letter in April 2021, and the letter was partly declassified on

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  • Six Stats That Show Americans Are Drowning in Stuff They Don’t Need

    Six Stats That Show Americans Are Drowning in Stuff They Don’t Need0

    The other day I discovered a YouTube channel, Wild We Roam. It depicts a couple who lives a very simple but vibrant life in a van in Europe. They have an incredible video (see below) showing how they converted a Mercedes van from 1980 into a home! When I saw this video, the first thing

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  • Six Simple Tips for Making Friends

    Six Simple Tips for Making Friends0

    Loneliness is frequently described in terms of a modern pandemic. A growing body of research indicates loneliness may be worse for your health than obesity or heavy smoking. While most people agree that loneliness is a problem, there’s far less consensus on what to do about it. Modern loneliness has a wide variety of causes.

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  • Six Reasons for Optimism in 2020

    Six Reasons for Optimism in 20200

    “The 2010s have been the best decade ever. The evidence is overwhelming.” Those are the words of Cato Institute senior fellow Johan Norberg, penned in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. Norberg’s words seem hyperbolic at first glance, but he may be right. In many ways, the world is getting better every day, and

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