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...Easterlin, economics professor at the University of Southern California. ?We have been misguided in dismissing what people say about how happy they are and simply assuming that if they are consuming more apples and buying more cars they are better off.? There are efforts to devise a new economic index that would measure wellbeing gauged by things like satisfaction with personal relationships, employment, and meaning and purpose in life, as well as, for example, the extent new drugs and technology improve standards of living...
...findings, part of a study led by Frank Hu, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, correlated body-mass index and physical activity to the death rate of 116,564 female nurses over a period of 24 years...
Scientists have long debated whether exercise can counteract the effects of excess weight, which would make physical activity a more important risk inhibitor than body-mass index. Proponents of the “fat but fit” hypothesis say that body-mass index is too crude a measure because it ignores body composition and levels of fitness...
...similar 1999 study led by Chong-Do Lee, then at West Texas A&M University, had tracked 22,000 men over an average of 8 years and concluded that a high body-mass index conveyed no extra risk in the most fit people...
Microsoft's desktop-search program, on the other hand--part of a new MSN Toolbar Suite beta.toolbar.msn.com)--examines the metadata embedded in multimedia files as well. The MSN program also allows you to create different indexes for separate user accounts. So if you share a computer with, say, your kids and want to maintain some privacy, you can still keep them away from any files you have hidden. (With Google, you'd have to exclude those files from the index altogether...