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- LETTERS, Page 5THE RAT RACE
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- Your story on the rat race in America (LIVING, April 24)
- summarized the important perspectives on a topic many people
- either don't comprehend or are afraid to address: What really
- is the "good life"? Are we methodically destroying our culture,
- families, relationships, health and ability to be content with
- ourselves? And for what? To pursue additional possessions,
- status and the inside track? We must redefine happiness and
- concentrate our time on what really counts.
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- Terry O'Brien Chanhassen, Minn.
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- Another by-product of our hectic pace can be loneliness. No
- one has time just to be a friend anymore. I remember the days
- when I could call a pal for sympathy and get a lift after a bad
- day. Now I reach an answering machine.
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- Joan Servis Centerville, Ohio
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- To paraphrase Calvin Coolidge, the business of America is
- busyness.
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- John Hellegers Jenkintown, Pa.
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- As a woman who gave up the fast-track world of a full-time
- law practice in order to stay home with my preschool-age
- daughter, I take offense at the characterization of withdrawal
- from the work force as a "glib answer" to the so-called problem
- of not enough time. I made this serious choice because I wanted
- to be able to provide for my daughter the time, attention, love
- and nurturing she needed from me, her parent.
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- Mary T.L. Bannon West Hartford, Conn.
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- I'm confused. For years, I have been hearing that Americans
- have become lazy and that we are easy prey for those
- industrious, highly productive foreigners. Now I read that we
- are working too hard, and everything is going to collapse if we
- do not learn to relax. What gives?
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- Frank M. Radoslovich Washington
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- The rat race has no winners: it is a lose-lose contest.
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- Alexander Zelenka Dallas
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- Your article looks intriguing. I wish I had time to read it.
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- Virginia De Koning Blenheim, Ont.
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