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...comes happier news. Venice is still sinking ever so slightly from natural causes. But according to a team of scientists who have been watching water levels since 1969 in response to the worldwide hue and cry over the plight of Venice, subsidence from man-made effects has ceased. That, said Geologist Paolo Gatto, is "definitive and final...
...Shah!" shouted Iranian students as they hurled rocks and bottles at his sister's house in Beverly Hills last January. But now that they have got what they wanted and Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi has been driven from the Peacock Throne, most of the students are not any happier. Only a relative few are returning to the country for whose liberation they had protested so vociferously...
Graves didn't have a lot to say about her squad's performance last year, or its prospects for the 1979 season--and she still doesn't. But she's perhaps a little happier after this weekend...
People who like their jobs (and up to 82% claim to) tend to be happier in general. An attitude of optimism (held by some 70%) often coincides with happiness, but quite a few of the 6% who are convinced pessimists are also happy. Good health is a big factor in happiness to some, yet poor health does not turn out to be incompatible with happiness. Not even "satisfaction" is indispensable to happiness. Says University of Michigan Psychologist Stephen Withey in Subjective Elements of Well-Being, a collection of papers presented in 1972: "Young people tend to report more happiness than...
...that is so, people who anesthetize themselves with booze or pot may be trying to achieve unnaturally what endorphins do naturally. Still, since individual body chemistries vary, the endorphin theory might account for the fact that some people are habitually happier than others: some might just have a bigger supply of this natural analgesic. It may even suggest, moreover, one concrete way in which human beings might assure their sense of happiness; yet this way-the ingestion of synthetic endorphins-is unnervingly like the drug-popping route to happiness envisioned in Brave New World. In all this, alas, nothing much...