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...literally hear people coughing and half the time someone will stand up right in front of the camera. And sometimes language is an issue. I had to buy three copies of Casino Royale until I got one in English. One evening my wife was happily enjoying The Holiday (a chick flick if there ever was one) when halfway through it Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, et al., started speaking Ukrainian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Losing Battle Against Chinese Piracy | 4/10/2007 | See Source »

...Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced Chick-Sent-Me-High-ee) isn't the only social scientist working on this subject. Positive psychology has been exploding in popularity. Systematic measurement of well-being is challenging because its definition is elusive. But researchers at Princeton University have been developing a new technique for collecting data about what activities make people feel good - and what they find bothersome. Many academics employ an older system that Csikszentmihalyi helped develop called the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). Subjects are beeped (via a pager or hand-held device) at random intervals during the day, usually every few hours, at which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Serious About Happiness | 4/3/2007 | See Source »

...dwindle, students are beginning to point fingers. First-time Netflix user Kathleen A. Fedornak ’07 is anticipating the arrival of two films that are already more than a week late. Her roommate, in the middle of a thesis-writing cram session, was looking forward to a chick-flick study break. Fedornak is determined to get to the bottom of the issue. “I don’t want to pay $12.99 per month and not get anything!” She has a point. In Eliot, undergraduates are hired to sort the mail...

Author: By Katherine M Tygielski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eliot Residents Stumped, Stressed About Missing Netflix | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...Clark says she sought to write a “quarter-life crisis” novel aimed at the so-called chick-lit set. She says her novel is a story about a stage that is all too frequently ignored: the years after college and before middle...

Author: By Siodhbhra M. Parkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grad Dips Her Pen Into the Publishing Business | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...Cecelia Ahern, eldest daughter of Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern, is one of Europe's most successful chick-lit authors. Her debut novel P.S. I Love You became an international best seller when Ahern was only 23 years old. A movie version of the book, starring Oscar winners Hilary Swank and Kathy Bates, has been filmed and is due for release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Premier Attractions | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

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