You know those design-magazine photographs of fancy homes, with high-toned magazines artfully arranged on sleekly elegant coffee tables?
As the Aedes aegypti mosquito needs fresh water to breed, it thrives in fancy homes and construction sites as well as in the slums.
Berea can be a haven for the lower-income students at high schools where expensive clothes and fancy homes demarcate the social territory.
She has been paid more than $300 million for her stake in Burt's Bees, and she spends her time traveling, refurbishing fancy homes in Florida and preserving large tracts of land in Maine.
They wanted to make as much money as they could, and then — after the fancy homes, private school tuitions, BMWs, luxury vacations and other less reputable pleasures were paid for — make high-profile donations to various philanthropies so they could feel good about themselves.
But, the authors wondered, just because "money often fails to buy happiness, does that mean it can't?" It turns out that it can, they say, if you spend it in one of these ways: BUY EXPERIENCES, NOT STUFF Fancy homes and luxury cars do not increase happiness in the long term, the research says.
