An interesting phenomenon indeed. Society has never had better access to more information than it has today. In light of this, are we becoming a more discerning society with more rigorous criteria for differentiating between fact and fiction? You might think we’d be less tolerant of fabrications and misrepresentations of the truth. But there is reason to believe that we are, in fact becoming more tolerant.

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People sometimes mistake fun for happiness and laughter for joy. Fun is shallow. Happiness is deep. Laughter is on the surface but often a smiling face masks the tears within. Statistics just released show that unhappiness has risen in the past decade.

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It was supposed to be just a flight training session with a series of ‘touch and go’ landings at a small airport in New Jersey. The flight instructor John Eberle climbed into the cockpit with Mark Sorey the student pilot and owner of the Piper Arrow 28. The two seat, single-engine plane N2759M was flying along the mile wide Hudson River when the engine failed.

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