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...psychologist David Myers notes in The Pursuit of Happiness, the number of Americans who reported being "very happy" remained constant, at one- third. Plainly, more gross domestic product isn't the answer to our deepest needs. (And that's especially true when growth only widens the gap between richest and poorest, as has done lately...
Such gains have earned Buffett, 64, a personal fortune worth some $12 billion in Berkshire stock and made him the second-richest man in America after his friend Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. "In the annals of investing, Warren Buffett stands alone," observes Wall Street Journal columnist Roger Lowenstein, whose biography of Buffett will be published by Random House later this month. According to Lowenstein, an investor who had placed $10,000 with Buffett in 1956 would have holdings today worth about $95 million...
...margin of three-to-one.TIME's Cathy Boothreports: "There is a growing sense in Bermuda that its problems -- drugs, in particular -- are beyond its control without Britain." Bermudans were also likely concerned that independence might weaken the country economically. The World Bank consistently ranks Bermuda one of the five richest countries in the world. "The voters probably felt that if it isn't broke, so to speak, why fix it?" said Booth...
...Only the richest countries can afford to explore these questions, of course, and while most expeditions are made up of scientists from many lands, the world's deep-sea powers--the U.S., France, Japan and, until economic troubles all but ended its program, Russia--are always aware of who's ahead in the quest for the bottom. At the moment, it's probably Japan, not least because of the triumphant touchdown in the Challenge Deep last March of its 10.5-ton, $41.5 million ROV called Kaiko. The Japanese got into ocean research well after the French, Americans and Russians...
...world's richest man, Bill Gates, and the world's luckiest hooker, Divine Brown, are both doing commercials for Brazilian TV. Brown, who was "discovered" while working in a white BMW, is promoting Valisere lingerie. "If you don't want your man looking for someone else," she says in the ad, "If I were you, I would use Valisere." Gates is shilling for Unibanco's online personal-banking services. "Wish my bank had thought of that," he says. Only one of them is doing it for the money...