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Increasingly, the answer seems to be yes. That's the intriguing conclusion from a body of work by Harvard social scientist Dr. Nicholas Christakis and his political-science colleague James Fowler at the University of California at San Diego. The pair created a sensation with their announcement earlier this month of a 20-year study showing that emotions can pass among a network of people up to three degrees of separation away, so your joy may, to a larger extent than you realize, be determined by how cheerful your friends' friends' friends are, even if some of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Happiness Effect | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...argument against all this is that FICA finances Social Security payments, and the connection between money in and money out helps keep Social Security secure. There's a simple answer: among the many problems we now face, the danger that a majority in Congress will gang up against Social Security benefits must surely rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Gold: It's Time to Raise the Gas Tax | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...some of the most intense gossip centered not on the future of Barack Obama’s administration, but on his family—what school would his two daughters, Sasha and Malia, attend? This time, the prompt answer was a disappointment: The Obama daughters will attend the $29,442-per-year Sidwell Friends School, alma mater of presidential progeny from Archie Roosevelt to Chelsea Clinton...

Author: By Claire G. Bulger | Title: Old School | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...winking at the camera. Laughter will abound. Everyone over 40 will feel uncomfortable. At the end of the sermon, you’ll ask yourself “What just happened?” and feel mischievously empowered when you don’t care what the answer...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman | Title: What’s Happening? | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...blinding as her blonde locks. "Just like me it's sweet, and definitely bad for you." When asked by the emcee to describe the superpower she'd most like to possess, Heller, a business management student, doesn't skip a beat: "I'd really like the ability to answer this question." (Read the Top 10 oddball news stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A British Row Over College Beauty Pageants | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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