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Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy health. A Princeton University study found that Americans who make the most money are no happier than those who make less, but a survey of 335,000 Americans published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the rich are healthier. Seniors ages 55 to 64 who live below the poverty line were six times as likely to have a long-term condition that severely limits their activity as wealthy Americans of the same age whose earnings were at least seven times as high as the poverty line. In another...
...exaggerate Most of us think we are getting more sleep than we actually are. A study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology showed that while participants spent an average of 7.5 hr. in bed, they really slept for only...
...culprit: prosperity, which permits Chinese people to eat more fats and junk food, fewer grains and vegetables. In short, they can now eat just as irresponsibly as Americans. High blood pressure and diabetes are also up. In the U.S., the epicenter of the problem, a study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology offered the disturbing news that heart problems can be seen in obese teens, in the form of reduced pumping ability and coronary enlargement. Another study, meanwhile, in Annals of Internal Medicine, found that being overweight at age 18 correlates with a higher risk of early...
...study, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, found that swapping a gene linked to aggression—known as “fruitless”—could make male fruit flies fight like females and could make females fight like males...
...service company that contracted with Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) last school year, the answer is still ‘no.’ And they’re angry about it. The students, mostly Kirkland House residents, are directing their frustration at Collegeboxes, a firm that The Wall Street Journal has called the largest national storage and rental business geared towards college clients. They say Collegeboxes either lost their belongings or did not deliver their possessions or reimbursement checks on time. Because Kirkland underwent renovations last summer, residents had to stash their belongings through Collegeboxes in order to receive free...