Study: World Gets Happier


	Study: World Gets Happier

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fdf4a6b6-b449-485a-bd93-458bf51cdf74/1BD62A5D-7836-4381-92AB-CD3D7B8C7599/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/studyworldgetshappier" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/studyworldgetshappier" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/studyworldgetshappier">Study: World Gets Happier </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/studyworldgetshappier"><EM class="timedate">Mon Jun 30,  1:16 PM ET</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/studyworldgetshappier"><P>
Despite the anxieties of these times, happiness has been on the rise around the world in recent years, a new survey finds.
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The <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/studyworldgetshappier/28072036/SIG=11urbfdh7/*http://www.livescience.com/health/060227_happiness_keys.html" linkindex="35" set="yes"><SPAN id="lw_1214866773_0" class="yshortcuts">upbeat outlook</SPAN></A>
is attributed to economic growth in previously poor countries,
democratization of others, and rising social tolerance for women and
minority groups.
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"It's a surprising finding," said <SPAN id="lw_1214866773_1" class="yshortcuts">University of
Michigan</SPAN> political scientist Ronald Inglehart, who headed up the survey. "It's widely believed
that it's almost impossible to raise an entire country's happiness
level."
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<SPAN id="lw_1214866773_2" class="yshortcuts">Denmark</SPAN> is the happiest nation  and <SPAN id="lw_1214866773_3" class="yshortcuts">Zimbabwe</SPAN> the the most glum, he found. (Zimbabwe's longtime ruler <SPAN id="lw_1214866773_4" class="yshortcuts">Robert Mugabe</SPAN> was sworn in as president
for a sixth term Sunday after a widely discredited runoff in which he
was the only candidate. Observers
said the runoff was marred by violence and intimidation.)
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The <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/studyworldgetshappier/28072036/SIG=11s6clkbh/*http://www.livescience.com/health/080625-baby-boomers.html" linkindex="36" set="yes"><SPAN id="lw_1214866773_5" class="yshortcuts">United States</SPAN></A> ranks 16th.
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Previous research has found that happiness is <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/studyworldgetshappier/28072036/SIG=11ri6k2kc/*http://www.livescience.com/health/080304-happy-genes.html" linkindex="37"><SPAN id="lw_1214866773_9" class="yshortcuts">partly inherited</SPAN></A> and that money <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/studyworldgetshappier/28072036/SIG=124k53ndf/*http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/060629_money_happiness.html" linkindex="38"><SPAN id="lw_1214866773_10" class="yshortcuts">doesn't buy much of it</SPAN></A>.
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