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Happiest People More Likely To Drop Out of School

Happiest People More Likely To Drop Out of School

Many people presume that those who drop out of school must be desultory losers, right? Not so, according to Marta Zaraska, who reported in her April 2 Washington Post article, “Too Much Happiness Can Make You Unhappy,” that “excessive joy, or having lots of positive emotions and a relative absence of negative ones … may hamper your career prospects.” According to Zaraska, ”Psychologist Edward Diener … and his colleagues analyzed a variety of studies … and discovered that those who early in their lives reported the highest life satisfaction … years later reported lower income than those who felt slightly less merry...

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04-11-2012 :: Tech News You Need To Know

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Today’s News is brought to you by Business Inside Apple might get sued for price-fixing today. Here’s what it will take for Best Buy to recover. Facebook could actually be a direct threat to Google’s core business. IBM fires back at Cisco with a $2 billion smart server project. Nokia is giving Lumia 900 customers $100 for a nasty software glitch. Yahoo’s most profitable business is slowly collapsing. The best hackers in the world come from this one country. Instagram’s first investor explains what he looks for in companies. Kevin Systrom explains what’s wrong with mobile video. AOL’s angriest shareholder is still angry. Today’s...

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Wisconsin GOP Picks 6 Fake Democrats to Run

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Wisconsin Republicans have lined up six fake Democrats to run in upcoming recall elections targeting Gov. Scott Walker (R) and five other Republicans, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. A GOP spokesman admitted that running “recall protest candidates” guarantees a primary date and ensures no Republicans will face a general election that same day, when Democrats likely will turn out in huge numbers to select a challenger to Walker. GOP Thinking Walker will be recalled Create fake Candidates Fake Candidate Wins Walker stays in office a wee bit more

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Robert Reich on Beyond Outrage

Robert Reich on Beyond Outrage

Robert B. Reich’s eBook exclusive Beyond Outrage features five videos that are both entertaining and informative. In them, Reich puts his patented wry style—not to mention his whiteboard—to good use, breaking down what’s wrong with this country and urging Americans to get beyond mere outrage about the nation’s increasingly concentrated wealth and corrupt politics in order to mobilize and to take back our economy and democracy. Americans can’t rely only on getting good people elected, Reich argues, because nothing positive happens in Washington unless good people outside Washington are organized to help make those things happen after the election....

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04-06-2012 :: Tech News You Need To Know

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Today’s News is brought to you by Business Inside HTC posted a 70% drop in profits. There’s another report that new Macs are coming in June. YouTube will start automatically converting your 1080p videos to 3D. Nokia’s Finnish jobs are slowly being shifted to Asia. Sergey Brin wore the Google Glasses out to dinner last night. Larry Page put out a big manifesto, aiming high for 2012. The Google Glasses might not be all they’re cracked up to be. A symbolic victory: Apple’s stock closed higher than Google’s for the first time ever. Google can’t get its own Nexus phones updated on time....

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