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The Scientific Reason You Aren’t Enjoying Your Free Time

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The Scientific Reason You Aren’t Enjoying Your Free Time

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Feeling overwhelmed? Are you constantly running from thing to thing but never getting it all done?When researchers survey people, they say they’re too busy — about everything.Too busy to make friends, date, sleep, have sex,...

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TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev takes us inside the weird, wonderful world of Sochi, which was known in Soviet times as Russia's version of Palm Beach.

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