Word: behavior
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...best at the worst in politics? Like squabbling children, each campaign seeks to justify its behavior by pointing fingers and insisting that the other team lied first. But in the main, McCain has been far quicker to throw the truth overboard--both in advertisements and on the stump. There are so many charges and countercharges about who distorted things first that we decided to spread the highest profile allegations, good and bad, across a grid measuring both accuracy and substance so you can be the judge...
...terrorists before they strike and, increasingly, the cutting edge of medicine. Consider a "magic carpet" that detects changes in your elderly father's weight and gait--tipping off his doctor to a potential illness. The Numerati, Baker writes, try to model "something almost hopelessly complex: human life and behavior." They're making progress...
...Rogoff and Frankel both said that the Fed is best positioned to walk the tightrope between encouraging future risky behavior by intervening too much, and potentially damaging the financial system by intervening too little...
...reassessment of the current minimum legal drinking age of 21. As of this writing, 130 leaders in higher education have signed on. While the signatories prescribe no single policy solution, they do agree that current age restrictions are not working effectively and could even be encouraging certain harmful drinking behavior on college campuses. Unfortunately, University President Drew G. Faust is late to arrive to the party...
...Soumerai said that even if direct advertising raises patient awareness, there have been no behavior changes in the drugs physicians prescribe...