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...field is flourishing, to use a favorite word of positive psychologists. Planners had hoped for 800 attendees and got twice that number, with psychologists, educators and students from more than 50 countries descending upon the City of Brotherly Love. There were signs that findings by positive psychology researchers had begun to influence economics, education and even government policy in some countries. But it was also clear that some of the heady findings from the infancy of the field had been oversimplified, and that later research has become more nuanced. (See 20 ways to get and stay healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Science of Happiness Turns 10. What Has It Taught? | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

That temptation was addressed head-on in a keynote speech by Ed Diener, president of the International Positive Psychology Association. Diener pointed out that some of the most popular findings on happiness have not held up to further study, that researchers have begun to the record straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Science of Happiness Turns 10. What Has It Taught? | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

...curves of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of night's light." Finally a bit of prose that makes us long for the clinical precision of the Starr report. Sanford told reporters the affair had begun "very innocently," which reveals that he still hasn't been honest with himself about the willfulness of his actions. When a married man begins a secret, solicitous correspondence with a beautiful and emotionally needy single woman, he has already begun to cheat on his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Hope for the American Marriage? | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...Iraq's Arab-Kurd political conflict also directly affects oil investment in the three semi-autonomous Kurdish provinces in the North. Since 2006 the Kurdistan Regional Government has signed about 20 deals with small oil companies, and have begun exporting oil during the past year - the only new oil fields developed in Iraq in decades -. That violated the Iraqi government's decrees that such contracts, which bypassed Baghdad, are illegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reasons Behind Big Oil Declining Iraq's Riches | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...timing is certainly right. Analysts say Hong Kong Disneyland needs to expand to stand up to plans for a much larger Shanghai Disneyland in the next few years. Construction has not begun, but the Shanghai municipal government and Disney Co. signed off on a project proposal earlier this year. The new plan could also lift spirits at a time when Hong Kong's tourism has taken a hit on swine flu concerns. According to the Hong Kong Tourism Board, the number of new visitors to the city in May dropped a steep 13.4% year on year. For the first five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Hong Kong Disneyland Get the Magic Back? | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

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