Word: affections
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...ttir, a noted journalist and playwright. "Being gay is not an issue in Iceland," explains Frosti Jónsson, chairman of Iceland's gay-and-lesbian association. "There are so many openly gay prominent figures in both the public and private sector here that it doesn't affect who we select for our highest offices. Our minds are focused on what counts, which is the current situation in the country...
...figures bear that out. The four biggest killers in Tehran today are road accidents, estimated to cost 28,000 lives every year; cardiovascular diseases tied to Tehran's polluted air and the high rate of smoking among men; depression; and drug addiction. "More than 70% of factors that affect health are social," says Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Golmakani, a municipality health adviser who is looking at the social determinants of disease...
Actually, yes. Over the past few years, psychologists and behavioral economists have been studying how emotions affect our decisions. You can make a good argument that complacent cheerfulness, in the form of blind faith in our credit cards and home values, got us into this situation. And there's evidence that certain so-called negative emotions can help us get out of it. In his new book, Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, esteemed psychologist Dacher Keltner of the University of California, Berkeley, notes that we usually conceive of emotions as diseases...
...influence Harvard’s yield, according to Fitzsimmons, It takes three to five years for changes in admissions policy to fully manifest themselves, he said, so last year’s expansion of financial aid and the elimination of early decision two years ago may or may not affect this year’s figures...
Others factors, such as whether or not an institution has an early admissions program, also affect yield, said Fitzsimmons. Binding early acceptance clauses allow a college to guarantee the enrollment of a set percentage of their next class, while non-binding early action programs give colleges a few extra months to recruit accepted students...