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It’s long been said that laughter is contagious, and now, it turns out, so is happiness. Happiness is not an individual but a collective phenomenon, according to a new study released online Thursday in the British Medical Journal. The study, which followed almost 5,000 people over 20 years, found that happiness can spread through three degrees of separation within social networks, meaning that the happiness of your friend, your friend’s friend, and even your friend’s friend’s friend can infect you with a good mood...
...Hosseini began writing fiction in earnest, he was reluctant to give up his day job as an internist in California. "I thought it completely outlandish and unattainable, the idea of becoming a writer," says Afghan-born Hosseini. Even after his first book, The Kite Runner, became an international publishing phenomenon in 2003 (6 million copies in print in the U.S. and 18 million worldwide) and a critically acclaimed film, he still found it hard to imagine that his writing career would last. "For a year and a half after its publication, I refused to believe that it was possible that...
...plays and related them to modern cultural trends. “I want to emphasize the way literature can have an effect upon history and culture,” she writes in an e-mail to The Crimson. “Literature is not just a second-order phenomenon. It does cultural work in the world.” Garber’s newest work, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture”—which is also the name of a course she is currently teaching—is certainly in line with the rest...
...Mother Courage I congratulate TIME Asia for highlighting the sad truth about the growing exodus of mothers from the Philippines [Nov. 24]. To many of us, it seems an irreversible phenomenon - most overseas workers will tell you they had no other choice but to leave and historical data show that the number of Filipino women working overseas surpasses men, pointing to what some have described as a "feminization" of labor. A mother's absence often leads to unspoken psychological consequences that are felt intensely by children. The problem our overseas workers face is a multigenerational one. Life is about making...
...from Italy," etc. When you ask a youngster what she dreams of being, she will say "I want to be a nurse, so I can go abroad." The outflow of Filipino workers is about supply and demand. It is about globalisation and economic growth. I just hope that this phenomenon is temporary and our country does not find it has been forced to destroy the fabric of family life. Lisa Crisostomo, RILLAAR, BELGIUM...