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Dubai: Have you noticed that you can actually tell if someone is smiling behind those masks that we all wear in public? It turns out happiness is just a smile away — you cannot mask it. Studies show some of the keys to happiness: sleep/rest, daily meditation, gratitude/gratefulness, healthy relationships and helping others. It’s that simple. And that’s according to a Harvard study, now running for nearly 80 years. The study kicked off in 1938, during the Great Depression, a really bad ti...

As I write this, we are now recognizing the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the COVID-19 pandemic. The world as we knew it before March 10 of 2020, will not return. The entire planet has been forced into a total adjustment of “how we used to do stuff”. Our behaviors reflect the restrictions placed upon us to protect us from illness or possibly potential demise. One of the restrictions has limited the amount of contact we can have with our family, friends and community. Being �...

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So far, close to 300,000 Americans have died from Covid-19 with no end in sight. The way things are going, we may likely have more than one million deaths in the next year. And those who are dying feel cut off from others, since family members cannot be with their loved ones at the moment of death because Covid-19 is such a debilitating force and lethal covert enemy. It’s likely that numerous individuals won’t want to be tested, just as millions refuse to wear a mask, practice self-di...

Illustration by Francescoch/iStock Bradley Riew ’18 had a calendar reliably packed from 9 a.m. to midnight. To him, that didn’t seem so bad. “You know,” he says, “you have nine hours to sleep.” On top of his schoolwork and various extracurriculars, he spent about 20 hours a week volunteering at local homeless shelters. He acknowledges now how well he fit the “overworked Harvard student” stereotype, but during sophomore year the commitments didn’t strike him as unusual. “I wa...