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...paper that will appear in the October issue of Psychological Science, Hyunjin Song and Norbert Schwarz suggest that small changes in menu fonts can significantly alter people's perceptions of dishes' complexity and value...
...unicorn both came to represent Christ, and also began to represent purity and chastity. The idea that unicorns could only be tamed by virgins became a widely held belief, and images of unicorns resting their heads in chaste womens laps, with not so subtle sexual undertones, began to appear in artwork. Likely for similar reasons of imagery and historical belief in its purity and healing powers, over time the unicorn was adopted as a symbol of power and royalty, most notably becoming the symbol of the Scottish crown...
...deal," he says. "'You were on the Festivus episode.' That was four days out of my life!" He knew it was time to leave when he was kicking himself for losing out on a regular role in V.I.P., the Pamela Anderson action series. He drove to Chicago to appear in a Steppenwolf production of Glengarry Glen Ross and decided to stay...
...that needed a new name - I mean, why pay for something that Google gives you for free? Clearly, MobileMe - at least judging by the demo yesterday - will be better than the various free services that Google offers. In fact, the MobileMe apps, when run via the Web, appear to behave with drag-and-drop fluidity. You'd think they were desktop apps. So who knows, maybe people will be upsold to the $99-a-year service. And if they do? Chances are they'll re-up every year, since switching is such a pain. (Although after running...
...book about African-American veterans. Black soldiers "had the most dangerous job," she says. "If you were going to show the soldiers' landing, you'd need to show [African-Americans] on the beach." In Flags of Our Fathers, which shows the landing in significant detail, African-Americans appear only in fleeting cutaway shots and in a photograph during the film's closing credits...