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Happiness is a sappy word and a flimsy concept - more fleeting than contentment, several octaves lower than joy. But happiness is what pollsters test and economists track, however clumsily, so we're stuck with it as the medium for measuring our mood. Not surprisingly, that mood has bounced around over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happiness Paradox: Why Are Americans So Cheery? | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

Is Twilight life like living in a bubble? And if so, tell us about your bubble. I wouldn't call them concessions, but there are alterations - and only fleeting alterations - that you need to make. Right now New Moon is coming out, and it's a big deal. I'm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Kristen Stewart | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

Still, the fleeting success made Barnard an overnight sensation and inspired surgeons around the world to try their hands at working the same miracle. Within two years, more than 60 teams had replaced ailing hearts in some 150 patients. But keeping a patient's immune system from turning on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heart Transplants | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

'Popularity is fleeting. It's not real.'

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

But this quest for identity is thwarted by Auster’s empty prose. Clichéd phrases, like “That’s the way I am. Life is too short for dawdling” and “What about me? Haven’t these...

Author: By Hana Bajramovic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Invisible’ Remains Transparent | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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