Researchers claim that a belief in hell encourages individual traits such as honesty, a work ethic, thrift and openness to strangers
By Felicia Lee
Forget investment and savings rates, worker productivity and wage scales to determine which countries will become richer or poorer. What really stimulates economic growth is whether you believe in an afterlife -- especially hell.

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A few years ago this village looked likely to turn into a ghost town, but today the future looks rosier for what could be described as the British capital of central Brittany.

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While the international record industry suffers from the blues, the world of classical music is singing along to a different tune -- sales of opera and other "serious" music are holding their own and a trend towards pop-style artists is pulling in new customers.

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