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Collins, now 23, supports the study's results. "I'm generally in a good mood," he says. "And based on the anecdotal evidence I've seen, tall people have a more pleasant disposition and are more easygoing. They don't have to make an extra effort to command attention. When they walk into a room, it tends to come naturally to them." Such recognition surely helps your self-esteem. If only it wasn't too late for you short people to have a growth spurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Tall People Are Happier Than Short People | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...know they're there in any number. When the 2000 Census showed that Indians were the fastest-growing Asian group in the U.S., marketers went berserk. Wells Fargo started sponsoring Bollywood concerts. MTV launched a channel just for South Asians. That's why municipalities make such an effort too. When companies make expansion plans - when they decide where to build their next store or where to open a satellite office - it can make a big difference whether your city has 100,000 potential shoppers and employees to offer, or just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Census Games: Groups Gear Up to Be Counted | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...effort got at least one thing right: when I tried to alter my suggested tweet in order to ask New York Senator Charles Schumer if he agreed with me that this whole thing was rather asinine, the tweet posted - but never showed up on the U.S. map. (Touché.) In the Twitter battle for health-care reform, there's not a lot of room to go off message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tweeting for Health-Care Relief | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...making a bigger effort to communicate with us [than Palin did], particularly right now." - Alaska House Speaker Mike Chenault. (Anchorage Daily News, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sean Parnell: Alaska's New Governor | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...effort the Americans have put into bringing democracy to Iraq, there could now be a showdown brewing between al-Maliki, who is setting himself up as the country's new strongman, and the Barzani clan in Kurdistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Kurdish Party Could Destabilize Northern Iraq | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

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