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...becoming paralyzed. He writes, "It's better to win the lottery than to break your neck, but not by as much as you'd think ... Within a year, lottery winners and paraplegics have both (on average) returned most of the way to their baseline levels of happiness." (See George W. Bush's biggest economic mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Less Stressful to Get Laid Off Than Stay On? | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...folks with bills to pay may smell something funny in fiscal instruments with names like "credit-default swaps," but when you work on Wall Street and people call you a "master of the universe," you think you can make the things pay off. Even nonpartisans would agree that George W. Bush waded into the Iraq mess with more certainty than strategy. And Bill and Hillary Clinton might actually have achieved health-care reform if they had tried negotiating with the opposition instead of steamrolling it. (See George W. Bush's biggest economic mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Powerful People Overestimate Themselves | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...Staff writer Emily W. Cunningham can be reached at ecunning@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dartmouth Crushes Crimson's Shot at Title | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...Jack W. Szostak, a genetics researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School professor who has been investigating the origins of life, acknowledged yesterday the significance of Church’s discovery...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientists Create First Synthetic Ribosome | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...autumn of 2006. Bosworth and, earlier, his boss, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have already beseeched the Chinese to intervene with the North, and diplomats in Seoul say that Beijing has done so. If Pyongyang ignores that counsel, says Victor Cha, former director of Asian affairs on President Geroge W. Bush's National Security Council, the Obama Administration will face two key choices: go to the United Nations to seek broad international sanctions against Pyongyang or reimpose the U.S.'s own financial sanctions, which infuriated the North's leadership precisely because they effectively cut off Pyongyang's access...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea's Nuke Saber-Rattling: A Test for Obama | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

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