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To test the idea, the researchers took the following approach: 84 students at a Chinese university were divided into two groups. One group counted 80 large-denomination bills; the other group parceled out 80 pieces of plain paper. All participants then played an online video game in which, using game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Counting Money Can Make You Happier | 7/25/2009 | See Source »

In the end, though, Wiedeking made one bet too many, leveraging his company in a gambit to acquire the much larger carmaker. He failed because he underestimated the political opposition to a takeover of VW and ended up saddling Porsche with $13 billion in debt. As his star was sinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Porsche's Exiting Boss A Symbol of Capitalist Excess? | 7/25/2009 | See Source »

Never on a Sunday? Not anymore in France, where the upper house of Parliament ended a bruising, two-year political battle by giving final approval to a law that will allow some stores to trade on the seventh day.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Many French Dislike Law Increasing Sunday Shopping | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

Even though Sudan's civil war officially ended four years ago, tensions continued to fester between the country's north and south over a region rich in oil and symbolism. But on Wednesday, an international panel decided to shrink the borders of the disputed Abyei region, a move that may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borders of Sudan's Oil-Rich Region Shrink | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

In 2005, when the north and south signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the war, they could not agree on the fate of Abyei, a region that sits along the hazy border and is home to several oil fields and an oil pipeline. In a bid to settle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borders of Sudan's Oil-Rich Region Shrink | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

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