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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
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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