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Still, this economic downturn has the potential to put a bigger dent in happiness than the past few. Unemployment is expected to rise higher than it did in the recessions earlier in the decade and in the 1990s. And economists and psychologists, not surprisingly, agree that unemployment is a big downer...
Lauderdale and her team had reason to be skeptical. While the connection between sleep and heart disease is of growing interest to researchers, earlier studies had been inconclusive, and plagued by biases, including the fact that most of the trials relied on people's self-reported accounts of their sleeping habits. The scientists knew that teasing apart the myriad processes that contribute to sleep, and then drawing scientifically sound connections between them and the host of things that can trigger heart disease, would be difficult at best. So the Chicago team isolated the most common confounding variables that could explain...
...felt, and still feel very strongly, that the founders of our nation felt that public service was not something that you would aspire to as a sole thing to do in life, but you would have a life outside of politics,” Vilsack said in an interview earlier this semester...
...term governor and mayor of Oakland, a man for whom political second a cts are second-nature. Early on, Brown had indicated he would fulfill his duties as A.G. and use the powers of his office to defend Prop 8. Indeed, Brown had sided with opponents of gay marriage earlier this year when the state Supreme Court ruled on whether a previous ballot initiative banning gay marriage was legal. As foot soldiers and generals alike on both sides of the war over gay marriage prepared to battle in court, Brown told TIME an evolving understanding of what was at stake...
...original religious meaning that the Puritans banned it in the 17th century). But in the past decade Hanukkah has taken on a higher cultural profile thanks to a growing number of actors, comedians, musicians and marketers who want kids to know that it's cool to spin a dreidel. Earlier this month a rare national TV special exclusively dedicated to the holiday, Lights! Celebrate Hanukkah Live in Concert, aired on PBS, featuring performances by musicians like Dave Koz, actress-singer Mare Winningham and the Klezmatics...