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Skipping vacations

A new survey says Americans will leave an average of nine paid vacation days unused this year. That’s partly because they worry that “their bosses will think they’re lazy or that their job could get eliminated while they’re away.” But skipping vacations has a cost: Women who don’t take them are two to eight times more likely to suffer from depression, while for men the risk of heart attack rises by a third.

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