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...Unhappiness spreads, but it doesn’t spread quite as much nor does it spread quite as consistently as happiness,” said Harvard Medical School professor Nicholas A. Christakis, who is a co-author of the paper. Harvard psychology professor Daniel T. Gilbert, a expert on happiness, called the new paper “stunning” in an e-mailed statement. “We’ve known for some time that social relationships are the best predictor of human happiness, and this paper shows that the effect is much more powerful than anyone realized...

Author: By Niha S Jain, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study Finds Joy To Be Contagious | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...study crowd crushes, there was nothing surprising about what happened at Wal-Mart. It was reminiscent of many tragedies that have come before, at soccer stadiums, concerts and Ikea stores, which only makes it more awful. "We know exactly how crowds work," says G. Keith Still, a crowd management expert who has helped plan high-density events around the world, including the annual pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. There is, he says, no excuse for these kinds of accidents. "It's stupidity. It's ignorance. But the consequence is human life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Prevent a Crowd Crush | 12/6/2008 | See Source »

Hall, who co-taught a historical studies course with Hoffman, called the expert on French political and intellectual history the “finest lecturer I’ve ever heard...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CES Founder Lauded At 80 | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...fact, English professor Gordon Teskey—an expert on Shakespeare who also used to teach English 10a—said he thinks there would be more of an emphasis on great authors, whereas the current set-up makes time period and geography the central organizing principles...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Paul C. Mathis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: English Dept. Approves Overhaul of Undergraduate Requirements | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...real decision-making?and the foreign leaders he visited knew it. And Vice President Dick Cheney was a power center unto himself. "You look at the team that George W. Bush brought in, and they also were very talented and experienced people," says Stephen Biddle, a defense expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. "It turned into a disaster because the President did a very poor job managing his staff and couldn't resolve disputes among his people." (See pictures of Barack Obama on election night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's New World Order | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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