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...your house is compared with your neighbor's, as opposed to its absolute size. According to these studies, even if everyone's income rose at a uniform rate - a rising tide lifting all boats - the growth would not make anyone significantly happier, at least not in the long term, because the relative position of people would not have changed. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
...groups have been getting calls from foreign embassies suddenly unsure of where the U.S. stands on a global deal. What they want to avoid is a replay of the negotiations over the Kyoto Protocol back in 1997 - the U.S., led by then Vice President Al Gore, agreed to long-term carbon-emission reductions, only to be repudiated later 95-0 by the U.S. Senate...
Kairos Shen, the popular chief planner for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, came to Allston last night intending to discuss long-term riverfront property development along Soldier’s Field Road. But at the community wide planning meeting, Shen quickly found his agenda derailed by a smattering of area residents. Aggressively, and at times angrily, they steered the discussion to what they denounced as the City planning agency’s botched handling of the Charlesview Apartments relocation—the “largest and most dynamic” change to the neighborhood in many years...
...country will judge Obama’s first-term success based on the fate of health-care reform. Everyone knows it, and the national debate reflects this reality. However, the craze has pushed a second reality into the shadows: that the grand arc of history will evaluate Obama’s success as much based on his administration’s actions to combat climate change as on its health-care reforms...
After six months away from the ivory tower calm of the economics department’s Littauer headquarters, economics professor Jeremy C. Stein—who was in the nation’s capital serving out a term as senior adviser to the treasury secretary—is back at Harvard and ready to reflect on the experience...