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...probably don't think much past the one who gave it directly to you. An infectious-disease expert, on the other hand, would not be satisfied to stop there. What about the person who passed the virus on to your colleague, the one before him and others earlier still? Contagious diseases operate like a giant infectious network, spreading like the latest YouTube clip among friends of friends online. We're social animals; we share. (See the Year in Health, from...
Increasingly, the answer seems to be yes. That's the intriguing conclusion from a body of work by Harvard social scientist Dr. Nicholas Christakis and his political-science colleague James Fowler at the University of California at San Diego. The pair created a sensation with their announcement earlier this month of a 20-year study showing that emotions can pass among a network of people up to three degrees of separation away, so your joy may, to a larger extent than you realize, be determined by how cheerful your friends' friends' friends are, even if some of the people...
LENO at 10 p.m.: helping put America to sleep even earlier...
...African Union (AU) ought to play a larger role in quelling this crisis. Zimbabwe is a member of the AU, and the peace-promoting body has made Zimbabwe and Mugabe’s questionable regime focal points of debate for much of the last decade. At an AU summit earlier this year, a handful of member-states called for the suspension of Zimbabwe from the AU. Yet by the end of the summit, the AU had failed to pass any strong sanctions against Zimbabwe, and instead merely resolved that the country’s two major parties ought to come...
...accommodate students’ concerns in light of the historical nature of this inauguration. One class that—ironically—had its exam scheduled for Jan. 20, Government 1540: “The American Presidency,” did get its test moved up a week earlier...