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...actors, a goofy, but not entirely implausible, premise, a modicum of snappy dialogue, the navigation of a handful of embarrassing situations, before the couple finally realizes that, all kidding aside, they were meant for each other. You don't have to be Oscar Wilde, or for that matter, Neil Simon, to pull that...
...were deemed to be more optimistic fared better than those deemed to be more pessimistic. “People who are optimistic have a good outlook on life—they treat themselves better, take better care of themselves, and live longer,” said Harvey B. Simon, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the author of the article profiling the studies. “The bottom line seems to be that people with a bright outlook have better health.” In one of the studies, researchers infected 193 volunteers with a common respiratory...
...With reporting by Simon Elegant/Beijing
...explained. Record profit announcements from major energy firms are nothing new; those inflated oil prices have triggered a string of them in recent months. But the slowdown currently underway in the U.K., for instance, "puts a bigger onus on these companies to explain lucidly what exactly that means," says Simon Webley, research director at the Institute of Business Ethics in London, which counts both BP and Shell as supporters. Petrol retailing, for instance, accounts for "very little of their profits," he says, "mainly because of the huge tax take from that. They will also have to point out the prices...
...necessarily be on the minds of current graduate students. “I don’t think it’s the reason most people go to grad school, but I suppose there are some public goods it has the effect of producing,” said Simon I. Rippon, a graduate student in philosophy. But Deborah A. Popowski, a third-year student at Harvard Law School, said she hoped her degree will further the public good in some way. “That’s why I went to law school. I do this not only because...