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...Self-Control Is like a Muscle Many people assume that weight is mostly a matter of willpower - that we can learn both to exercise and to avoid muffins and Gatorade. A few of us can, but evolution did not build us to do this for very long. In 2000 the journal Psychological Bulletin published a paper by psychologists Mark Muraven and Roy Baumeister in which they observed that self-control is like a muscle: it weakens each day after you use it. If you force yourself to jog for an hour, your self-regulatory capacity is proportionately enfeebled. Rather than...
...what's perhaps most unique about G.I. Joe is his staying power. In an era when toy companies completely overhaul their product lines every few years, G.I. Joe has managed to avoid another hiatus. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra might not set any box-office records, but it's a fair bet the movie's namesake will still be a mainstay on toy-store shelves long after the movie is forgotten...
...Tenenbaum faced an uphill legal battle to avoid paying large damages. After he admitted downloading and distributing the 30 music files at issue in the case, the jury was not asked to rule on his liability for the activities. The issue instead became how much he would have...
...nine kid foods to avoid...
...shortfalls of HIPAA, "is it's really complicated and fixing it part way almost never works." Some skeptics of the insurers' support this go-round believe that's what the industry is counting on, even if its advocates and defenders insist that's just what they are working to avoid...