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...James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, who make up the team best known for its series of studies showing that emotional states and behaviors - including happiness, obesity and quitting smoking - can propagate like a wave throughout a network of people. To examine whether the contagion effect existed with loneliness, the researchers used the same data set that Christakis and Fowler had mined for their earlier studies - the Framingham Heart Study, an ongoing trial originally begun in 1948 to identify risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Thanks to the meticulous way the trial was initially set up, with investigators...
Ratnesar seems to downplay Reagan's effect on the fall of the Berlin Wall. Diplomacy has often combined an iron fist and a velvet glove. Reagan also appreciated the importance of opening minds, a warm heart and a silver tongue. S MacDermott, TORQUAY, ENGLAND...
Chicken Parts and Tires But the same Americans who speak darkly of the China effect routinely seek out the least expensive cell phones, televisions and clothing and demand that companies whose stocks they invest in show double-digit profit growth. Procter & Gamble needs the supercharged gains of its Oil of Olay brand in China to remain compelling to investors. The Otis Elevator Co., a unit of United Technologies, makes great elevators, but it's China that's erecting thousands of skyscrapers. And the same Chinese who snap up copies of China Is Not Happy seek business deals with American companies...
...recalls a certain scene: after 45 minutes of seemingly plotless meandering, a single moment of suicidal violence shocks the audience out of their fugue and puts them on the edge of their seats for the remainder of the film. “The Road” employs a similar effect; following a span of wandering, father and son come upon a disconcertingly civilized-looking house, which they are drawn to investigate. Readers of the book know exactly what's coming, which only makes it worse. Another memorable scene features Michael K. Williams, best known as Omar from...
...thorniest critic in the government's side. But the seizure of her Nobel medal and the threats against her family seem poorly calculated. "The irony of all this is that such policies give Ms. Ebadi more prominence," says Farideh Farhi, an Iran expert at the University of Hawaii. "In effect they make her harassment itself the human-rights message that they are trying so hard to prevent her from expressing...