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Are you checking out all of your friends’ amazing Thanksgiving pictures on social media? And does it look like everybody had ...

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Happiness is more than the feeling you get after eating a delicious meal. But what is happiness? On this Voices in the Family special, Dr ...

A Harvard research study spanning 80 years that looked into the life and health trajectories of well over a thousand people offers some i ...