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NEW YEAR, SAME YOU?

ebruary is coming, and with it the inevitable review of those New Year's resolutions that were so enthusiastically made just a few weeks ago. It's thought that about a quarter of us make New Year's resolutions every January, but evidence varies around how many of us actually manage to stick to them. In one set of data, from the quarter of us who make New Year's resolutions, about 35 per cent

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