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...different countries while researching his new book, The Geography of Bliss. Equal parts travel memoir, self-help screed and reportage, the book takes something everyone has wondered - Does where you live determine how happy you are? - and uses it to plumb the psyches of nations that are statistically the happiest places on earth: countries such as Iceland, Qatar and Switzerland that "possess, in spades ... money, pleasure, spirituality, family, and chocolate." In a year of traveling, Weiner visited not only well-adjusted locales, but also places where people say life is just so-so and one where the people are truly...
...living in one of the happiest places on earth make me happy? Having lived in a dozen cities and some 30 flats in the past 10 years, I'd spent more than a little time wondering about the connection between place and peace, and whether I'd be happier in the next place. I can't remember what my answer was that day with Weiner in Reykjavík, but, like a typical American, I recall vividly not wanting to come off as unhappy. If he asked me the same question today, I probably still wouldn't be able...
...love my wife," he tells the crowd as he begins. "I plead guilty - especially today, which is my daughter's 28th birthday and the happiest day of my life." He follows with a long, detailed description of how Hillary Clinton has worked for change - as a law student, at the Children's Defense Fund, as First Lady of Arkansas, in the White House and the Senate. "She is the best candidate for President I've ever had a chance to support," Clinton says. A list follows: She supported Senegalese women victimized by genital multilation; she inspired Cambodian women to work...
...generally hosts the crap out of us. Clooney is a movie star not because he's overwhelmingly electric or handsome or fascinating. After two very fun nights, I can tell you that he really isn't any of those things. George Clooney is a movie star because he's happiest when he controls how everyone around him feels. Because that's what movies do. -With reporting by Amy Lennard Goehner
...collaboration with social psychologist Carey Morewedge of Carnegie Mellon University and presented last weekend at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Boston, Gilbert bolsters the theory that our inability to predict enjoyment of our future experiences keeps us from accurately predicting what will make us happiest in the future overall...