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items 1-5   • Do official measures of happiness take all
relevant factors into account?      LONDON -- "UK population's
happiness is on the up," trumpeted a headline in the Guardian.
What the headline was referring to are the results of a survey
conducted by the Office for National Statistics meant to measure
Britain's national well-being. While the idea of measuring a
country's well-being by something other than just its GDP is
certainly important, the question is how the alternative index
is compiled, and how it correlates with other data on health and
well-being. I'm solidly behind any effort to show that we're
more than just our marginal contribution to our bank account,
the bottom line of our employer, or the gross national product
of our country. But it's important to look at the whole picture.
• Nobel Prize predictions: Higgs boson, exoplanets could yield
winners      Nobel Prize predictions: Higgs boson, exoplanets
could yield winners