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Ten Things Science Taught Us About Happiness in 2012
Last year's most surprising, provocative, and inspiring findings on the science of living a meaningful life.
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The US Coal Industry Wants to Boost Exports to Asia – Native American Tribes Stand in the Way
If the energy industry's plans for massive coal and natural gas exports go through, the US could become a major energy exporter.
Obama to Accelerate Handover to Afghan Army
Washington may draw down its remaining 66,000-troop force in Afghanistan more quickly than previously planned.
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Guns Sales Soar in US as Nation Weighs Tougher Limits
The possibility that the federal assault weapons ban might be reinstated spurred sales of semiautomatic rifles with military-style features.
The Problem With Charity: Water
No one really knows how many more people have water due to charity: water's well-building efforts. Nor can anyone guarantee that's all that charity: water does.
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The Users of the University
For decades, parents, politicians, and business titans have tried to convince us that the best majors and the most lucrative majors are one and the same.
Ethiopian Dam Threatens to Turn Lake Turkana into “East Africa’s Aral Sea”
New paper documents impending threat to regional peace and security in volatile Horn of Africa.
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American Culture and the Psychology of Mass Shootings
How are we to understand the psychology of the gun violence that afflicts American society? Peter Michaelson goes to great lengths to describe the aberrant psychology of an individual …
Representatives Cummings and Waxman Release Documents Showing that Wal-Mart’s CEO was Informed of Mexican Bribery Allegations in 2005
Today, Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings and Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman sent a letter to Wal-Mart CEO Michael Duke …
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Three Years Later, Haiti Still Struggling Due to Failures of International Community
Three years after its massive earthquake, Haiti continues to struggle with lack of funding and UN caused cholera outbreak.