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...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 40s generally claim to be less happy than those who are younger or older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Our Happiness Preordained? | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...occurred in Kirkland, where the residents claim to live with a haunted bathtub. The plumbing has backed up several times this academic year alone, spewing “gross black sewage” into their bathroom. As if that weren’t enough, the knobs once became stuck mid-shower...

Author: By Sha Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard’s Makeover | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...America and its allies refuse to talk to Iran unless it suspends nuclear production for the duration of the negotiations. “We cannot hold talks while Iran continues to develop nuclear weapons,” he said. Burns has visited the Kennedy School several times since the mid-1990s, according to Belfer Center Director of Communications and Outreach Sasha Talcott. In September 2006, he hosted a Directors’ Seminar on US policy toward Iran. Students had mixed reactions to Burns’s performance at the forum, entitled “Clash with Iran: Inevitable or Avoidable...

Author: By Branden C. Adams, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Burns Discusses Iran at IOP Forum | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

...mid-way point, only a number of teams have a legitimate shot at the title, and consequently, only a number of fans care. Isn’t there something inherently wrong with a system that effectively renders a majority of its regular season games worthless...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRUZ CONTROL: Ivies Lose Without Post-Season Play | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

...they didn't love; who pack large, allegedly inbred families into dilapidated brick row houses; and whose "Ch'timi" patois - rooted the ancient French Picard dialect - is incomprehensible to outsiders. Little wonder Abrams decides to spare his wife the horror of the north by moving up alone - arriving in mid-summer in a polar jacket and after-ski boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Movie Finds Success in Unlikely Quarter | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

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