Word: dunne
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...study has found that money does indeed bring happiness—spending money on other people, that is. Authored by Harvard Business School professor Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn ’99, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, the report used a combination of real-life and laboratory data to conclude that people who give money to others—no matter how little—are happier than people who do not. “We were interested in studying happiness by seeing people’s actions rather than their circumstances...
...viewer with Austin’s appeal—Willie Nelson, cowboys, and democrats—while the second half outlines the city’s problems of over-population, showing what happens when too many people follow their desire to move to an ideal place. Director Laura Dunn does a great job capturing the unique texture of Austin with its various subcultures, but she can’t resist playing favorites, privileging ranchers over suburbanites and environmentalists over developers. The film dramatizes the battle over Barton Springs and develops characters who drive the plot forward. The local charismatic developer...
...discover the plagiarism. “Usually you would think with peer reviews the people who reviewed would have picked up on this,” LaBaer said. “Plagiarism can be very subtle.” When asked whether the paper would be retracted, Michael J. Dunn, the editor of Proteomics and a professor at the University College Dublin Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, wrote in an e-mail that he is looking into the matter with the publishing house, but refused to make any further comments. The authors of the study did not respond...
...Tennessee's Republican voters appear evenly split between the three major presidential candidates, so too are the state's Republican leaders. Romney has the support of one former governor, Winfield Dunn, and McCain that of another, Don Sundquist. State legislators and other party leaders have similarly split their loyalties between the two. Thompson, widely expected to endorse McCain at a Nashville rally on Saturday...
...fellow Iraqi named Hazem Olwan. "We all know the Americans have high technology," Olwan told her, "but they can't do anything about the weather." The heat was just the first in a series of disappointments. "Many refugees have an idea of America without any negatives," says Robin Dunn Marcos, head of the Phoenix office of the IRC. "Their expectations are not exactly met." Faeza noticed that not every building was a skyscraper, not every car was new. Most of all, not everyone was rich. After a pit stop at McDonald's--Khattab insisted that his first food in America...