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...happiness, much of the interest in it stems from the 1974 discovery by University of Southern California economist Richard Easterlin that the happiness of a nation's inhabitants didn't necessarily rise with its GDP. But the recent explosion in happiness surveys has enabled a soon-to-be-published reappraisal by the University of Pennsylvania's Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, who find that happiness tracks per capita GDP pretty closely. Money really does matter. GDP does...
...Haiti's turbulence began last week when food riots broke out in the southern city of Les Cayes. It's hard to know what sparked Tuesday's explosion in the capital - protests in the countryside have been simmering for weeks, and have only recently trickled into Port-au-Prince, where nearly a quarter of the population lives. It's also difficult to know if the protests were organized or spontaneous. If Haiti's history is any example, whenever riots break out its weak security system collapses, giving way to a free-for-all that allows anyone with a vendetta...
...been high in Baghdad Tuesday morning, in anticipation of a million-strong march against the U.S. occupation called by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. His Mahdi Army had been engaged in weeks of violent clashes with U.S. and Iraqi government forces in the capital and in the southern city of Basra, and many in the capital feared the worst. But on Tuesday afternoon, Sadr suddenly called off the demonstration, declaring in a statement, "I'm calling on the beloved Iraqi people who are willing to demonstrate against the occupation to postpone this demonstration out of my fear for them...
...Both Democratic presidential candidates will be able to point to the recent fighting in the southern city of Basra as evidence of poor Iraqi leadership and ill-prepared and unmotivated U.S.-trained Iraqi troops. While Iran helped negotiate a deal that curbed the fighting in Basra, Tehran continues to supply Shi'ite groups linked to cleric Moqtada al Sadr with lethal weapons and training that continue to take a toll on U.S. forces, Pentagon officials say. That, they add glumly, suggests Iran could continue a game of hard-nosed cat-and-mouse for as long as U.S. troops...
...prime security threats. Throughout his tenure, Putin has sounded the alarm on NATO's encircling of his country. Much as he has the grounds to decry the West's broken word, given back in the 1990s, NATO is engaged in Afghanistan against forces that would ultimately threaten Russia's southern flank. Putin even allows NATO to use Russian territory for logistics, and approved its use of air bases in Central Asian countries. Still, President Bush failed to convince his Russian counterpart and friend that the latter's stringent anti-NATO rhetoric is counterproductive...