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Whooley studied more than 1,000 patients with heart disease at the VA for nearly five years. The patients filled out regular questionnaires to determine their mood state, and were asked yearly to report on any heart-related events. Researchers took blood and urine samples to measure their levels of omega-3 fatty acids, cortisol and the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein, as well as the neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine - all agents that may be involved in both depression and heart disease. In all, about 20% of the participants reported depressive symptoms; over five years, those patients...
...TIME's special report on paying for college...
...migration from Latin American nations to the United States: Though they're often portrayed as a burden on the U.S. economy, the report argues that immigrants are instead a key driver, and one which accounted for half the growth in our nation's labor force during the 1990s. Migrant contributions to the labor market have been obscured by illegal immigration, a political hot potato that has ramped up tensions between U.S. and Latin American nations. "On balance," the authors argue, "the impact of immigration on the U.S. economy has been significant and positive. Estimates of the net benefits...
...Lowdown: When confronted with massive challenges - and forming a "hemispheric partnership" certainly qualifies - it helps to frame prescribed policy changes in terms of sheer self-interest. This report does so deftly, mostly eschewing wonkiness in favor of stressing common bonds. Its series of "modest, pragmatic recommendations" are couched to show that the U.S. and Latin America are natural bedfellows. It's not that we have a moral obligation to turn the other cheek when Hugo Chavez dubs George Bush a "devil," or when pockets of America inaccurately assign blame for U.S. unemployment levels on Latin migrants. It's that doing...
...latest candidate for such a fall is Wong Kwong Yu, 39, the chairman of mainland electronics retailing giant Gome. Wong, named by the Hurun Report last month as China's richest man with an estimated net worth of $6.3 billion, was detained last week on suspicion of fraud, Chinese media reported. According to a report in the financial magazine Caijing, Wong (his name is also spelled Huang Guangyu) is being investigated for manipulating the share prices of Shanghai-listed Shandong Jintai Group, a medical company controlled by his brother, Wong Chung-yam. (See pictures of what money...