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...love photography in general and unsmiling, non-photogenic people have always made me laugh," Dehareng explained in an e-mail to TIME. Readers are invited to submit their own pictures, though in all likelihood, most photos on the site are probably found objects similar to the vintage-store snapshot. The concept is catching on. Happiest People Ever ! has been around for less than a month, but it's already getting about 6,000 hits a day. In part that's because the qualifications for entry are minimal. Anyone bored, lonely, grumpy or dejected (preferably all four) is welcome. Smeared makeup...
...been historically, Americans would have to get rid of some $3 trillion to $5 trillion in debt over the next few years. (Read "Lidia Bastianich Saves Our Dough.") Lansing and San Francisco Fed colleague Reuven Glick ran a simulation of what would happen if U.S. consumers followed a path similar to that of Japanese businesses in the 1990s. That was another episode of a great debt dump following a stock-and-real-estate bubble - it's one of the examples economists often turn to in trying to understand what's going on now. Lansing and Glick figured that...
...also answered questions about their sleep "hygiene" - factors that contribute to quality of sleep, such as adhering to a regular bedtime, waking up at the same time every day, or exercising or drinking caffeine before trying to sleep. One year, Peszka asked the same students to fill out another similar questionnaire to determine whether their sleep schedules were associated with...
McKenzie's study was designed to inform the debate about the establishment of official safety standards for home offices. She hopes the results will kick-start efforts to address the issue - similar to previous efforts to reduce television-set-related injuries - beginning with some practical safety tips. The Center for Injury Research and Policy has a helpful fact sheet that outlines common-sense computer safety, and McKenzie offers a few simple pointers as well: "Keep computer equipment away from the edges of desks. Organize cords and keep them out of the way. Anchor furniture and heavy computer components...
...their campaign for justice would continue. Michael Gallagher and others are calling for an independent inquiry to be set up by the British and Irish governments to further investigate the Omagh atrocity. Other killings carried out during Northern Ireland's 25-year sectarian conflict have been the subjects of similar investigations, and not without controversy. The Saville Inquiry into the 1972 shooting of 27 civil-rights marchers in Derry by British army soldiers is already in its 10th year and, despite having cost an estimated $320 million so far, has yet to deliver its final report. The result is that...