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...recent survey, a majority of Germans said the E.U. should be more independent of the U.S. I'm really not a friend of discussions about whether we should see Europe as a separate entity. I am a firm believer that most problems we are grappling with today can and will be solved only through real partnership with...
Finally, life-cycle funds are meant to be all-in-one portfolios, yet a survey of retirement savers by Hewitt Associates found that people who invest in them held an average of six different funds in their 401(k)s. That not only undercuts the great advantage of those vehicles--ease of use--but it can also put your overall portfolio allocation out of whack, morphing you into a middle-of-the-road investor when an aggressive or conservative allocation might better suit your time frame. "Employees think this is another fund," says David Wray, president of the Profit Sharing...
...plausible to think of happiness not as a state of mind or a state of the pocketbook, but as an actual sovereign state? Many surveys lead us down that path. In study after study on national happiness levels, my country, the Philippines, gets unlikely top scores. The World Values Survey published by the University of Michigan last November ranked 82 countries and territories according to feelings of "subjective well-being"?which combined its happiness and "life-satisfaction" scores?and the Philippines had one of the highest ratings in Asia, above far richer locations such as Taiwan, Japan and South Korea...
Adding to this critique of student apathy, James D. Wilkinson ’65, Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, referenced a survey conducted by the Center more than 10 years...
...survey suggested that most students complete only 43 percent of their assigned reading—regardless of the length of their reading list. However, citing Social Studies 10 as an example, he explained that this number almost doubles when students understand the rationale behind the syllabus...