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...donut formation resembling a question mark. Streets are numbered from A to ZZX. Monorail (493-7190; platform accessible via shuttle M-F 9-5pm, Sa 9am-4am), at the intersection of John F. Kennedy St. and Mass. Ave. The shuttle to the platform is inside the Information Booth. Bang on the window and ask for the monorail. If the workers pretend they don’t know what you’re talking about, consider them insane and dangerous. The Pakistani consulate is located at Tommy’s House of Pizza. Bike rental, 34 Hamilton...
Surprising new products pop up all the time at high-tech trade shows. But at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, one was particularly shocking. Volunteers by the dozen lined up at the Taser International booth for a chance to get blasted with 50,000 volts from the company's newest stun gun. "It felt like I got hit by lightning 100 times," said Jeremy Friedbaum, 46, of Provo, Utah...
...Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/Houston, Bernard Baumohl and Deirdre van Dyk/New York, James Carney, Michael Weisskopf and Adam Zagorin/Washington, and Sally Duros and David Thigpen/Chicago
...varieties of toothpaste might reasonably conclude that there can be too much of a good thing. Mark Lepper, a psychology professor at Stanford, and Sheena Iyengar, an associate professor of management at Columbia, illustrated this point with a simple study. In a grocery store, they set up tasting booths that offered either six or 24 types of jam. Shoppers found the wider selection more enticing: 60% who passed it stopped and tasted, while only 40% stopped at the booth with fewer flavors. Yet the wider selection was confounding; just 3% who sampled there bought anything, while 30% made a purchase...
...With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas/ Dallas and Karen Tumulty and Michael Weisskopf/ Washington