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Amid this week’s holiday bustle of parties and presents, a new book decries our modern “cult of speed” that leads to more stress, more illness and a more superficial skim-thru-it-kind of existence. It urges a society-wide shift into a lower gear and describes a few communities where a “slow revolution” is already underway. Laura's guest is Carl Honore, a Canadian journalist based in London who has written for the Economist, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, and the National Post. His latest book is "In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed".