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Drops in wealth do seem to reduce happiness, but even that is short-lived. The American Enterprise Institute's Arthur Brooks, who wrote Gross National Happiness, says our moods tend to adjust to new economic realities quickly. "We do find in poor economic times, you get dips in happiness, but...
His boss has been around even longer. Owner Frank Thompson, 77, who has been selling cars for 57 years, still brown-bags his lunch every day and puts in 40-45 hours a week, remembers even darker days for dealers: the oil embargo in 1973. Having lived through tough times...
Shin Abe doesn't find it odd that the picturesque little Japanese town of Kuzumaki, where he has lived all his life, generates some of its electricity with cow dung. Nor is the 15-year-old middle school student blown away by the vista of a dozen wind turbines spinning...
Still, the Vatican parlor game of trying to envision future papal candidates is slippery business. Perhaps the strongest African candidate of the 20th century was the widely respected Cardinal Bernardin Gantin of Benin, who died in May at the age of 86. Having once headed the powerful Congregation of Bishops...
While the economy is clearly hitting families hard, Beal said he sees the Freecycle movement as part of a natural cycle in which consumers become more conscious of excesses in their lifestyle. "It's made us more aware of being thoughtful with our consumptive patters, sort of like that grandmother...