Attention, recovery and return: the good news of these days

This week, good news in Lifestyle revolves mainly around attention: for students, for animals and people who need to recover, for art that finally comes home, and for leaders who learn to listen better. Four different stories, but always the same core: those who look and listen carefully see what is needed. In Rhode Island, music lessons prove to have a surprising effect on school absenteeism. Research by Quadrant Research shows that of students who took music lessons for four years, 25.4 percent were chronically absent. For students without four years of music, that figure was 37.3 percent. For arts...