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...learned about what makes the human heart sing? More than one might imagine--along with some surprising things about what doesn't ring our inner chimes. Take wealth, for instance, and all the delightful things that money can buy. Research by Diener, among others, has shown that once your basic needs are met, additional income does little to raise your sense of satisfaction with life (see story on page A32). A good education? Sorry, Mom and Dad, neither education nor, for that matter, a high IQ paves the road to happiness. Youth? No, again. In fact, older people are more...
...bluest have their moments of joy. That has presented a challenge to social scientists trying to measure happiness. That, along with the simple fact that happiness is inherently subjective. To get around those challenges, researchers have devised several methods of assessment. Diener has created one of the most basic and widely used tools, the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Though some scholars have questioned the validity of this simple, five-question survey, Diener has found that it squares well with other measures of happiness, such as impressions from friends and family, expression of positive emotion and low incidence of depression...
Four years ago on a medical mission, Steven A. Ringer, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, came to the startling realization that babies were dying because Vietnamese hospitals lacked a basic technology...
...Vietnamese hospitals lacked a basic device called Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), which can provide lifesaving respiratory support for newborns, especially those born prematurely. Ringer says this simple technology consists of a tube that is inserted in the baby’s nose and used to supply pressurized air to help an infant breathe and keep his or her lungs from collapsing...
...breed of billionaires [Dec. 6] gave a good account of the country today. The media and the wealthy ?lite want to believe the real India is affluent and mainly concerned with the good things in life. But the true India consists of millions who are deprived of life's basic necessities. The country's rich have shirked their responsibility to the poor. The wealthy still find ways to avoid paying taxes, evidenced by the number of income-tax cases against well-known citizens. The affluent are also failing the country by not contributing directly to the society from which they...