This car, fittingly, found its way to Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney , descendent of both oil and railroad tycoons, and needless to say, someone to whom the Great Depression wasn't a significant deterrent to the enjoyment of the good life.

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No insects were harmed in the making of our video, at least -- and the lab assures us that ant had a good life before learning the hard way why it shouldn't mess with Harvard scientists.

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The former Chuck, now a handsome, straight-arrow record executive (if that isn't an oxymoron) named Charlie Sitter, lives the good life in the Hollywood Hills.

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What really bewildered us was the lens continuously auto-focusing while the camera remained stationary -- that couldn't be good for the battery, and we'd like to see how battery life fares in upcoming reviews.

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"There aren't any good reasons for Japanese life insurance firms to rush to invest overseas, given the recent rise in domestic government bond yields, " Mr. Noji added.

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These are the young who don't have the advantages of a stable family life, parental role models at home, and teachers in good private or public schools instilling in them the joy of learning.

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And while there's certainly plenty of employers out there who recognize the value of good work-life policies, many people in this country just aren't as fortunate to work with those employers.

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But if there's been a consistent thread in the basketball life of Jeremy Lin, it's been people telling him he wasn't good enough, and Lin going out and proving his skeptics wrong.

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