From The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert reviews Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely and Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler. Can we teach people to be happy? Anthony Seldon and Frank Furedi debate. Halle Berry uses hair extensions, so does Angelina Jolie: Much of the hair they end up with comes from women who offer up their locks to Hindu gods in Indian temples. From Foreign Policy, the US Military Index surveys more than 3,400 active and retired officers at the highest levels of command about the state of the U.S. military — they see a force stretched dangerously thin and a country ill-prepared for the next fight; and was Fidel good for Cuba? A debate between Carlos Alberto Montaner and Ignacio Ramonet. Glenn

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