What Happy People Don’t Do

NY Times - Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds. That’s what unhappy people do.

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Criminology - Can the can

Economist - The idea that graffiti-spraying and other forms of low-level delinquency promote further bad behaviour has now been tested experimentally. The researchers’ conclusion is that one example of disorder, like graffiti or littering, can indeed encourage another, like stealing. The message for policymakers and police officers is that clearing up graffiti or [...]

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Time machines: Our chronic obsession with watches

Independent - From Oysters to Seamasters, Skyhawks to Hemipodes, the world of luxury watches is booming as if recession were an alien concept. But who actually needs a diamond-encrusted, solid gold chronograph with built-in altimeter?

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Invasion of the Netbooks

BusinessWeek - Some consumers are opting for the inexpensive, small, Web-connected computers in place of laptops that can cost three times as much.

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What women ‘really think’

Telegraph - Almost two out of five women now see themselves as feminists, research for Stella magazine has revealed. However, nearly three out of four women would rather have a man, than a woman, as their boss. Nearly half of women (46 per cent) think a couple should live together before they marry. [...]

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When doctors and parents clash over life and death

Independent - Hannah refused a heart transplant, and expressed a wish to spend her dying months at home, with her parents, her two sisters, and her brother. However pragmatic and mature that decision may be, and however sure a parent is that their child is sincere and sensible in her choice, the arrival [...]

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Dying girl Hannah Jones wins fight to turn down transplant

Times - At an age when most teenage girls are thinking about school, boys and pop music, Hannah Jones is hoping only to be allowed to die with dignity. Hannah, who is 13 and terminally ill, has persuaded a hospital to withdraw a High Court action that would have forced her to have [...]

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