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...launched. It was designed to work like a Dow Jones average of attitude. At least 1,000 people are surveyed daily, 350 days a year. (You can see how happy people are broken down by congressional district; Utah turns out to be the merriest state, West Virginia the glummest.) When the markets tanked last fall, happiness did too, and anyone who has lost his or her job, house or health care is probably still in a world of pain. But here's the funny thing: by this past summer, overall well-being was higher than it was in the summer...
...change is indeed coming. Even the glummest Zimbabwean will acknowledge the reopening of schools, hospitals, shops and factories. And Tsvangirai is adjusting well to his new role, successfully seizing the political initiative from the man who has held it for more than a generation. The contrast between the two leaders was never greater than on Tsvangirai's recent foreign tour, during which he was feted by President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. At an African Union summit in Libya, meanwhile, Mugabe stormed out of a meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State...
...That ought to worry Tsang, the Hong Kong Chief Secretary. With property prices stuck in a rut and equity prices spiraling downward, the territory boasts some of the glummest consumers in Asia, despite its integration with China. For Hong Kong, a free port that depends heavily on trade with the world, the horrible uncertainty hanging over the global economy can only make things worse. Tsang and the rest of Asia will be following the war carefully?hoping for a fast peace...
...year opened, the recession that began in December 1973 had deepened into a nosedive that for a time fulfilled the worst predictions of the glummest pessimists. In the first three months of 1975, the nation's output of goods and services plunged at an annual rate of 11.4%, the steepest drop in 30 years. Unemployment, which began soaring at the end of 1974, continued bounding up to a peak of 9.2% last May-the highest since before Pearl Harbor. Fear spread that the nation might have started on a downward spiral into depression...
...even in February, when the national mood seemed glummest, the Draft Union was having trouble getting through to people. "Most seniors still don't believe that they will be drafted after graduation," sophomore Barry A. Margolin, undergraduate coordinator of the Union, said recently. "Seniors think their draft boards are different-but 70 per cent of them are going to end up in Vietnam." The psychological impact of recent events has been to confirm these seniors' hopes of legally avoiding the draft. The immediate threat now seems less dangerous...