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...around the country. No cell phones or Internet connections will be allowed, and the group will not emerge until 5 p.m. E.T. These people are part of the National Election Pool (NEP)--and they owe their monastic retreat to a long-running debate on how early election reports can affect the outcome of a race...
...explores how images help contribute to a sense of self. A former Nazi in the film describes how his first encounter with pictures of Auschwitz defied his entire worldview. Tan also interviews a New York artist, Alfredo Jaar, who believes that only images of pain can still affect today’s viewer. In “The Eyes of Gutete Emerita,” Jaar forces viewers of his work to confront images of the genocide in Rwanda directly by placing one million slides on a lightbox. Tan’s most recent projects take the combination of image...
...cuts do not directly affect capital improvement plans for affordable housing in Cambridge, but two resident service programs—the nationally-recognized Work Force and Community Computer Center programs—have seen their collective state budget earmark of $150,000 halved...
...biases as well as preferences among the presidential candidates. “As psychologists, what we’re doing is using the Web site to understand some of the mechanisms that go into the act of voting—how our attitudes and preferences about social groups might affect our choice of a candidate,” Banaji said. Nosek said the project began with tests based on the contenders in the primaries but switched to Barack Obama and John McCain when it became clear they would be the two main party candidates for the presidency. Over...
...strong Congress, and that's just the way committee chairmen like it. After more than a dozen years of being stymied, first by Newt Gingrich and then by George W. Bush, congressional Democrats are bursting with pent-up ambitions and long-deferred dreams. Some are epic undertakings that would affect every American for decades - like the proposal to impose a cap on carbon dioxide emissions and put a price on permits to burn fossil fuels. Or the goal of completely reorganizing the way the U.S. manages health care. Other, smaller projects involve large amounts of controversy - like a bill that...