I don't think six examples is a "long" list and I don't think it is a trend. But the proposed answer is interesting nonetheless.
"Teenager who went to bed with a headache, fell into a coma and woke up four days later to discover she had unknowingly given BIRTH to a surprise baby. . . .
"The college student - who studies Sports Physiotherapy - hadn't developed a bump, experienced no morning sickness and had not missed a period."
For us New Optimists, however, it’s an uphill battle. No matter how persuasive our evidence, we routinely encounter disbelief and even hostility, as if accentuating the positive was callous.
A possible answer: "Why It Pays to Be Grumpy and Bad-Tempered".
Theodore Dalrymple wrestles with his "morality of somewhat variable geometry" as he finds "arguments to support the moral conclusions that I have already arrived at, usually by a kind of moral gestalt rather than by detailed analysis".
Guess what? Once again, "easy money" isn't.
Duke student doing a project for an economic class e-mails Janet Yellen. And she wrote back.
About what I expected, but your mileage may vary.
It puts me in mind of a movie with Josh Brolin I saw--I think it was Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps--and the exasperated protagonist says to Brolin something along the lines of "You're really, really rich. What the heck can you still want?" And Brolin just smiles a little and says, "More."
A lovely story. (Link courtesy of my older daughter.)