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...months, Seligman, who has a talent for popularizing and promoting his areas of interest, was approached by the Templeton Foundation in England, which proceeded to create lucrative awards for research in positive psych. The result: an explosion of research on happiness, optimism, positive emotions and healthy character traits. Seldom has an academic field been brought so quickly and deliberately to life...
...stir generated among climatologists by the AO makes Thompson, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University, a tad uncomfortable. "I guess I have a humble tendency," he says, noting that in science, credit seldom belongs to one person alone. Thompson is broadening his focus to include other components of the climate system, notably the AO-like Antarctic Oscillation, whose behavior, he thinks, has been profoundly influenced by the leakage into the stratosphere of man-made compounds that destroy the ozone. Result: wind patterns are keeping the white continent's interior bitterly cold while allowing the outlying peninsula to warm...
Hardened veterans of the nocturnal lifestyle seldom report such problems, and quite a few of them, like Tony Warren, claim they have drastically reduced their need for sustained periods of pillow time. Jason Hensel, 32, a Dallas magazine editor and musician, admits to occasionally daydreaming at work but otherwise has few complaints about a routine that others would find grueling. After putting in nine hours at his day job, Hensel rehearses with his band until 10 p.m. or so and then either heads out for nightclubs or settles in for a late night of DVD viewing. For Hensel, four hours...
Fortunately, this country is not the only champion of free trade in this world. A practice that fundamentally improves people’s well being can seldom stay rare. The expansion of the E.U. bloc is well covered in the media, but the changes afoot in Asia are more remarkable. Abdullah Badawi, Malaysia’s prime minister, suggested that a summit of members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus Japan, South Korea and China could form the basis of an East Asian Community, modelled on ASEAN’s own plans for free trade and further...
...comedy, after all, and at the end even this villain has his moments of sympathy. In the end, Brute saves the lovers from a disastrous misunderstanding with his appeal for simple communication. “Your people of wit have got such cramp ways of expressing themselves, they seldom comprehend one another. Pox take you both, will you speak in the language of common sense, that you may be understood...