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...HAPPINESS What's a good marriage worth? Economists David Blanchflower of Dartmouth and Andrew Oswald at England's University of Warwick calculate that a lasting marriage adds happiness equivalent to an extra $100,000 a year. They also say that yes, higher income equals greater happiness; that to make up for the sadness of losing a job would require an extra $60,000 a year; and that while the gap has diminished over the years, whites are happier than blacks--about $30,000 happier...
...kids ages 6 to 11, Traxtar's built-in microprocessor notes how fast its wearer runs, jumps or leaps. As kids move to new performance levels, the shoe's display "pod" flashes and plays Pomp and Circumstance. TRAXTAR.COM, a companion website, offers codes to punch into the pod to make it play other songs. A pair costs $55 for tots and $65 for teens...
...indisputable right to uncover as much as we can. And in the current, vaguely McCarthy-esque era of the public "right to know," we can rest assured that someone like FDR - whose physical health was in sharp decline and whose marriage was tortured - will probably never again make it past the New Hampshire primaries...
...increasing number of cities across the U.S. have uncorked a revolutionary way to improve student performance (drum roll...): make sure they go to school. With a National Education Goals Panel report released last week declaring that the nation is behind schedule in its stated aim to improve schooling, mayors across the country are concluding that you can't learn much or graduate if you don't show up. Thus, more and more cities are taking a get-tough approach to battling poor performance - and arresting kids who play hooky. While the approach is too new to claim major academic victories...
...sentenced to 60 days in prison for failing to police a chronic truant. While these programs have shown some early success, they raise some hefty ethical questions - should we put kids in control of sending their parents to jail? Can the single parent of a grown high school student make his or her child go to school? As with most areas of education reform, there don't seem to be any simple solutions, but one thing remains clear: The U.S. won't become the world leader in education it wants to be until its kids start going to class...