FRANCINE DU PLESSIX GRAY, the author, most recently, of "Simone Weil" and "At Home With the Marquis de Sade: A Life": I use my driving time every weekend for general self-improvement; life is short, and why waste any time?
There have been improvements: life expectancy, which was in the mid-50s in 2001, is now about 60 years; school enrolment has risen from 900,000 in 2001 to more than 6m.
The Spanish fiscal adjustment implies a net improvement of life-time consumption of about 20%%.
This is a stunning improvement in life expectancy since back in the 1970's when life expectancies were a full decade shorter, around 70 years.
It is found that the GLARE strap provides a 2.3 × improvement in life comparing to a plain specimen, and a 1.75 × life improvement when a fastener is installed in a cold expanded hole.
Chile saw the greatest improvement in life satisfaction scores in 2014.
For lower income groups the improvement in life expectancy is only one year per decade.
In certain ways, the displacement sites offer an improvement over life in the islands.
The improvement in life expectancy and the advances of modern surgery and medicine have been achieved at a certain price.
The combined effect appears to have been "stagnation or, at best, mild improvement in life expectancy," Mr. Easterlin has written.
They are expected to play an increasingly important role in the improvement of life quality.
