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Another larger study, released in January ahead of its publication in Social Science & Medicine this month, shows that whatever people's individual happiness levels, we all tend to fall into a larger, cross-cultural and global pattern of joy. According to survey data representing 2 million people in more than 70 countries, happiness typically follows a U-shaped curve: among people in their mid-40s and younger, happiness trends downward with age, then climbs back up among older people. (That shift doesn't necessarily hold for the very old with severe health problems.) Across the world, people in their...
...pursuing happiness, new research is showing that that goal may be largely out of our control. Two new studies this month add to a growing body of evidence that factors like genes and age may impact our general well-being more than our best day-to-day attempts at joy...
...Similarly, the symbolic figurehead of the reformist movement, former President Mohammad Khatami, called on Iranians to "Participate, though submissively, but with joy!" The reformists' expressed rationale is that the only other options are either another revolution, or a foreign invasion - and, like most other Iranians inside Iran, they reject both out of hand. "You see we have no choice. We're choosing the best way forward from a number of bad options," says Tajzadeh...
...said the same.” After coming fourth in the prelims, to have Pangilinan lead after 150 yards was a surprise, especially with top seed Lisa Hamming of Princeton breathing down her neck.About 30 seconds later, the team was in tears. Tears of joy, naturally, as Pangilinan touched the wall first with a time of 2:14.69. “Those are big shoes to fill for next year,” Morawski finished. It was a gutsy win on a day with quicker times than normal, a phenomenon that will likely keep Pangilinan out of the NCAA Championships...
...this proposal. If we take the College’s rhetoric seriously, then student satisfaction and eliminating economic discrimination should come before all else. Wider beds aren’t an unimaginable luxury; they’re a need waiting to be addressed. Their arrival would bring some joy to Cambridge’s cantankerous young people, and we wouldn’t have to go looking for special ultra-thin sheets, either...