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...happier? According to the researchers, it all boils down to a behavioral trait called adaptation. Adaptation predicts that even positive experiences become less enjoyable over time. Prior studies have shown that the longer people live in an enjoyable place, consume their favorite ice cream or listen to their favorite song, the more the intensity of their happiness declines. One study concluded that even after people win the lottery, their happiness returns to prior levels a few months after cashing in the ticket. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...record level. Yet there is a limit to what governments can do. Exports are simply too important to the tiger economies to be easily replaced. They represented 74% of Taiwan's GDP and 46% of South Korea's in 2007. "You can't change the [export] model," laments Song Seng Wun, an economist at CIMB-GK Research in Singapore. "You just have to make sure everyone can take the downturn...
Davies was actually quite good. He exuded a recognizably freshman earnestness into each clever word of his original songs about complicated romantic situations. I particularly liked his song about resurrected love, as a woman reunites with the man who joined the clergy when she spurned him 27 years ago. His “Autobiography of a Bum” was cool too. For the first fifteen minutes of the performance I imagined I was in the 1940's, a girl with her ear pressed against a radio, tuned to bluegrass. After the last few spectators wandered...
...parents are enthusiastic about Harvard,” said Chi S. Song, a high school senior from Troy, Mich., who applied to Harvard. “I can’t imagine maybe $500 making a difference...
...worth the effort? Eleutheria, after all, is a Greek name that means free. The bad news for kids whose parents couldn't keep it simple is that uncommon monikers do present problems - at least at first. "People may not necessarily be perceived as more dangerous," Song says. "But if all you know is their name, they may seem riskier to approach or hire...