Feeling regret about having bought something is a very unpleasant sort of unhappiness. Even with my under-buying ways, I sometimes come home with something I didn't really need to buy. Stores use extremely clever strategies to winkle customers into...
克林顿时期第一猫“袜子”去世 Socks, the Clintons' White House cat, dies In this March 19, 1994 file photo, Socks the cat peers over the podium in the White House briefing room in Washington. Socks, the White House cat during the Clinton ad...
Smokers who are paid to quit succeed far more often than those who get no cash reward, according to a new study that provides some of the strongest evidence yet that financial incentives can help change such behavior. The study, one of the largest...
When You are Old ——by William Butler Yeats When you are old and gray and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look, Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. How man...
Not long ago, a rich person in the U.S. could be secure with the knowledge that their finances were, if not top secret, than at least private. Banks rarely asked questions. If you had a closely held company, few could determine your net worth (someti...
Cutting calories may improve memory among healthy elderly men and women, a new study from Germany hints. In the study, researchers found that people who cut their calorie intake by approximately 30 percent performed better on standard memory tests af...
