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Article: Weekends become more hectic, less relaxing
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- May 24, 2005
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They say you have to stop and smell the roses, but these days a
lot of Americans are running around so fast they're not even making
it near the garden. Not even on weekends.
Life magazine has just put out The Great American Weekend Study,
measuring how Americans spend their weekends and what they expect to
get out of them.
Some of the answers are troubling, especially if you're the type
of person who enjoys a good weekend and who believes that the period
between Friday at 5 p.m. and Monday at 9 a.m. was intended for
grander plans than simply catching up on work. For those who think of
the weekend as a time to recharge and revitalize, or spend time with
family, a tendency to over-schedule ...