Though firms in countries outside the United States offer an institutionalized nap as part of the workday, Amer­ican corporate culture subscribes to the hard-driving, multi-tasking get-it-done mind-set. However, have a meltdown or two at work, even with 20 years in the business, and your job could be history. While Americans have widely embraced yoga as a way to shape up...

High school and middle school English class staples -- from William Shakespeare to Mark Twain to Ernest Hemingway -- now exist in the e-book universe, as do Harry Potter and the crews from the Twilight and Hunger Games series. This brings up a very provocative question, not so much about Johnny not being able to read, but Johnny feeling he...