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...level of happiness tends to be relatively stable in both good times and bad. Even when people are hit by big negative surprises, say a diagnosis of cancer, most generally optimistic people remain optimistic. "There is a piece of happiness that comes and goes with daily life," says David Robinson, a finance professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. "But there is a much larger piece of happiness that is stable...
...surprise, of course. But does that portrayal reflect a pre-existing expectation that film buffs hold or does it instill it? As part of their research, Dr Holmes' team had around 130 student volunteers watch the 2001 romantic comedy Serendipity, while another group of the same size watched a David Lynch drama. Viewers of the romantic comedy were found to be more likely to believe in fate and destiny. It was a small study confined to one region, but, Dr Holmes argues, "it does give us some indication of [the effects of romantic comedies...
Vilsack's agricultural policies are not his only connections to the president-elect. Obama’s Chief Strategist David Axelrod also advised Vilsack during his Iowa gubernatorial campaign, and Vilsack’s wife, then-Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack, spoke during the 2004 Democratic National Convention on the same night as Obama...
...Adam Sandler's hilarious, if now overplayed, "Chanukah Song" (a musical version of a time-honored Jewish pastime - identifying other Jews). "When you feel like the only kid in town without a Christmas tree, here's a list of people who are Jewish [like Paula Abdul, Kirk Douglas and David Lee Roth], just like you and me..." The underwhelming musical quality of the goofy ditty was beside the point. But the media attention the song received - an actor celebrating Hanukkah? - paved the way for more writers and artists to be loud and proud about their Jewishness. A couple of years...
...flow" - having nearby vendors supply parts, and workers assemble them, as they're needed rather than stockpiling too much inventory or flooding the market with, say, gas-guzzlers no one wants to buy anymore. "Southern communities understand you can't tie organizations down with restrictions," says manufacturing management expert David Miller of the Alabama Productivity Center. "Successful auto companies in the South provide all the positives you'd find in a union shop...