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...that makes sense: money buys you things that make life easier and more satisfying; the easier your life, the happier you tend to be. That relationship isn't entirely linear, since there's a limit to how much wealth can please you; the happiness benefit of an increasing income is especially powerful among people who don't have much money to start with, and diminishes as wealth increases. But studies also reveal that as average income levels have risen over time - in the U.S. and European nations, for example - residents of those countries have not reported being any happier than...
...that eludes most linear print stories about Gaza, Sacco's drawings capture not only the despair of its benighted citizens, but also their indomitable vitality, their generosity and their gallows humor. "Palestinians in Gaza haven't had the luxury of pulling back and examining the past," Sacco told TIME in a telephone interview, explaining why he had exhumed these ancient events. "Besides, in Gaza, every generation...
...Linear assimilation was not true for this group because although they did really well socioeconomically, they did not assimilate into the mainstream,” said Sonnert, adding that the cultural values retained by the refugees proved “advantageous...
...government's contribution to the Global Fund was flatlined, exacerbating an existing shortfall that threatens its work. A recent paper by Harvard researchers Rochelle Walensky and Daniel Kuritzkes warned that failure to increase HIV/AIDS funding could have serious consequences for countries like South Africa, where only a linear (as opposed to exponential) expansion in the number of people treated with ART would result in 1.2 million avoidable deaths over the next five years...
Sebald’s response to this philosophical proposition is at once local, in telling the story of one man’s struggle to prevent his own history from “lapsing into oblivion,” and metaphysical, in challenging our assumptions about the linear nature of time. Perhaps, says Austerlitz, “all the moments of time have co-existed simultaneously… past events have not yet occurred but are waiting to do so at the moment when we think of them...