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...Sony Pictures, the production company behind “21”, took a Clintonian tone of indignation when addressing charges of box-office bias. Didn’t the two attractive Asians on the poster mean anything to them? Look how attractive and Asian they...
...study is one of the first to track patterns of discrimination based on weight. It's worth noting, however, that the survey relied on people's own perception of discrimination - the authors did not require the subjects to document bias in any way. In addition, the authors found that rates of discrimination by age and gender also increased in the same time period, suggesting that several forms of bias - or perhaps sensitivity to perceived bias - is on the rise overall, not just against the overweight. Nevertheless, the study did track the same population over time, and Andreyeva says that...
...cessation drugs and programs, which are currently successful only 25% of the time. "It could be that we need to tailor how we get people to quit," says Amos. For some, behavior modification may be sufficient; perhaps others will need targeted nicotine-blocking drugs that can fight any genetic bias toward addiction...
...held against her the fact that a Harvard player had already won five of the 10 awards given out, how it gave way too much weight to Mercyhurst’s Meghan Agosta’s inflated goal totals, or how it exhibited an obvious pro-Sweden bias in voting for Minnesota-Duluth’s Kim Martin, a Stockholm native (alright, maybe not that...
...Time Warner.) Maybe even more galling, the network has lately faded in the ephemeral category of buzz. MSNBC--with far fewer viewers--has been the political-media obsession of the 2008 primary, largely because of feuds between the Clinton campaign and the network for its perceived pro-Obama bias...