On today’s show: Joshua Wolf Shenk on a 72-year-long Harvard study that looks at the human condition and whether or not there's a formula for happiness. And our latest Underreported segments look at how the economic recession is affecting human rights around the world, and at oversight of defense contractors in Afghanistan.
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What Makes Us Happy
For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been following 268 men who started college in the late 1930s through war, marriage, fatherhood, their careers, divorces, sickness, health, and old age. Joshua Wolf Shenk has examined the records and archives of this study, one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in ...
Underreported: The Recession's Impact on Human Rights
The economic crisis has radically changed many of the ways in which the world functions, but one of the great recessions most disastrous side effects is an increase in global repression. Widespread economic problems are creating extensive social problems as people and governments cope with limited access to food, jobs, ...
Underreported: Defense Contracts, Afghanistan, and Fraud
The cost of defense contracting surged to $400 billion annually in 2008, while prosecutions by the Justice Department of defense contracting fraud fell by 76% during the years President Bush was in office. And until last year there was no independent oversight of where money for defense contractors in Afghanistan ...
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