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Borkin’s trajectory at the IIC is just one example of a wider pattern of interdisciplinary science at Harvard...
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...
...Pentagon officials were upset that Fallon had allowed the Esquire writer Barnett - who said Bush "regularly trash-talks his way to World War III" - travel with him to Afghanistan and Egypt, granted him several interviews, and posed for a photograph that accompanied the article. "There was a pattern of behavior by Fallon," a senior Pentagon official said. "He seemed to be saying things that were out of step with the Administration. Gates never found Fallon to be straying, but certainly publicly he seemed to be straying." Fallon plainly knew the explosive potential of the magazine article; he called Gates last...
...whiner’ and lacking in leadership rather than dealing with the hostile environment that was being created by Dr. Fischer,” Laura R. Studen, one of Warfield’s lawyers, said in an interview. Additionally, the complaint alleges that this pattern of discriminatory conduct had already been brought to light in 2005, when a “group of distinguished leaders of similar departments” investigated the interpersonal problems between Fischer and Warfield—among other issues—and concluded that the problems were primarily Fischer’s fault. Despite the fact...
...President.” Perhaps Francois Fillon and I have different definitions of the word “abnormal,” but I find it more abnormal that the President of the French Republic would call one of his constituents a stupid bastard. This incident represents a pattern of behavior wholly unfitting to the French presidency—a pattern of behavior that is costing Sarkozy credibility at home and potentially abroad...