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Money Buys Happiness Up to a Point

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These are today's best ideas

1. Money can buy happiness — up to a point.

By Purdue University

2. To fight deadly infections, hospitals are looking to a new ally: machine learning.

By John McQuaid in Kaiser Health News

3. To curb the nation’s leading cause of death, heart cells may one day be programmed to repair themselves.

By UNC Healthcare

4. Do we get too much information about pregnancy from TV?

By Melanie Schefft at the University of Cincinnati

5. America’s soft power is slipping away.

By Joseph S. Nye in Project Syndicate

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