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...tend to be rewarded higher than those who join later, increasing the incentive for people to join. So just by repeating something over and over again, momentum may be created. This, when employed with other propaganda techniques, can create a long lasting impact.More often than not, propagandists also use card-sticking, a tactic that involves promoting an extreme position and discrediting counterarguments and opposing points of view. This may seem counter-intuitive: how can an argument be sustained if it takes an unrealistic stance? Yet it is this very extreme position that enables its survival and growth of public sentiment...
...proving or disproving alibis. For example, if a serial killer is roaming the country and claims that he has never been in Akron, Ohio, but you have a history of his hair that places him in that geographic area, it raises some questions. "It's like a credit card transaction that puts you in a place. If you said you were never there, then you have some explaining to do," points out Park...
...visually pleasing but devoid of emotional impact. Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand, “Fargo”) is an out-of-work nanny fending off starvation in 1939 London. When an employment agency peevishly refuses to give her a job, Miss Pettigrew snatches up the business card of aspiring actress Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams, “Junebug”). Upon arriving at Delysia’s loft, Miss Pettigrew finds that the actress doesn’t need a nanny, after all, but rather a social secretary to help secure her place in London society. The film follows...
...China, an English-Chinese dictionary can be indispensable. One solution is PlecoDict, a program for Palm devices and Pocket PCs that includes up to five dictionaries. You can find words by searching in English or in Chinese--by romanized spelling or character. The software also includes a flash-card program, so you can learn new words while you're stuck in Beijing traffic...
...unnecessary spending, according to a new study by Peter Tufano ’79, a professor of financial management at the Business School, and Annamaria Lusardi, an economics professor at Dartmouth College. The survey, conducted by the global market research firm TNS, asked 1,000 Americans about credit card debt. Over 64 percent of respondents could not correctly estimate how their interest would compound over time. The majority of people also said they did not understand minimum payments, and few could determine the different financial consequences between paying monthly installments or a lump sum. The results also revealed that...