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...used to bolster the nation's ranks of organ donors. In one survey, only 64% of people wishing to be organ donors had marked that choice on their driver's license. If, instead of making people choose to donate, states asked them to check a box if they chose not to, participation rates would skyrocket--from 42% to 82% in one experiment. Even just forcing people to make a decision one way or another (with no default) boosts participation to 79%. More lives saved, and more people following through on a desire to be donors. That's a nudge that...
...former Crimson vice president, begins her account with a remarkable story about an incident in 2005 in which a record-setting 104 out of 110 winners of a Powerball lottery chose the same five numbers—using fortune cookies. It was this story, and the discovery that the fortune cookie is not Chinese, that sparked Lee’s mission to learn more about the dessert. This search leads her to examine, tangentially, other facets of the American Chinese food industry: the ubiquity of the take-out menu, the popularity of chop suey, the integral role played by Chinese...
...started when, given a chance to play with a scanner, Veasey chose to X-ray his own worn-out sneakers, the first of many "junk" items - toys, teacups, gadgets - he's since experimented with. "They may look awful on the surface," Veasey writes, "but once the internal workings are revealed ... all objects can be appreciated for their structure...
...choose Harvard Pilgrim after soliciting proposals for consolidated coverage from its three current plans other than Harvard University Group Health Plan and from Aetna Inc, another health care benefits company. Aetna came out ahead in the comparison, conducted with the help of consulting firm Hewitt Associates, but the University chose Harvard Pilgrim because of its local roots, according to Socha. “Aetna is not a regional brand,” she said. “Harvard Pilgrim came in second and it was close enough that we decided the local brand made sense...
...campus, like I was 3,000 miles away,” Fitzsimmons said. “For one thing, everyone else had an accent.”Fitzsimmons, who had been recruited by other schools, including Brown and Boston University, as an ice hockey goalie, said he ultimately chose Harvard because of its academic reputation and renowned faculty and student body. He also said he thought it would be a good fit even if he decided to make hockey a secondary part of his life.Robert W. O’Brien, who was Fitzsimmons’ high school history teacher, said...