Shiny happy people
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Americans are delighted by the idea of personal transformation and are working very hard to revive the sleeping giants that self-help gurus states lie within them. In the quest for self-improvement, people spend billions of dollars every year for books, audiotapes, seminar pills, and plastic surgeries, but in the process, they do not even know where they are heading.
Publication Name: Utne: A Different Read on Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 1544-2225
Year: 2005
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The unbearable lightness of adulthood: Reflections on turning 30
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A senior editor for magazines describes that after approaching the age of 30 she views life with a new perspective. She feels that instead of trying to fight youth back and upsetting oneself, it is best to accept growing age and make life simple and satisfactory.
Publication Name: Utne: A Different Read on Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 1544-2225
Year: 2004
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Kickin' it
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Alan Ball, the creator of Home Box Office's (HBO's) funeral drama 'Six Feet Under' and also wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1999 film 'American Beauty'. Ball offers his views on how Americans deal with the issues of mortality and grief.
Publication Name: Utne: A Different Read on Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 1544-2225
Year: 2005
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