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The “Taxi Dancers” Of Buenos Aires, Giving Visitors And Older Women A Real Taste Of Tango

Professional tango dancers for hire in Buenos Aires are giving clients — mostly foreign women and retirees — a chance to experience Argentina’s signature dance.

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Future Society

Sad? Happy? Happier? My Eight Weeks On A Happiness App

Happiness applications promise to make users measurably happier in eight weeks. But is happiness a skill that can be taught? For Die Zeit, science writer Maria Mast put an app to the test.

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Society

The Fatherhood Juggle: Why Work-Life Balance Is Not Just A Career Mom Trick

How can parents find balance in the face of societal pressure and expectations? What can we do to re-confer prestige and value to parenting roles? Those are questions both parents ought to ask themselves — not only women.

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In The News

Ode To Joy? Not Really. A Meditation On Europe

-OpEd- WASHINGTON — Late last summer, my wife and I took a ferry from Doolin, on the West coast of Ireland, to Inishmore, the smallest of the three Aran Islands. The tiny ferry, with perhaps no more than 30 or 40 people aboard, was filled with mostly European passengers.The ocean was rough; a short trip […]

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