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...years old, a little girl was on the escalator just in front of him. She had bare feet, and no socks on. And her feet got mangled. It was such a dramatic experience that he never forgot it, at least in his nonconscious part of the brain. In his conscious part of the brain, he totally forgot about it. But whenever he saw an escalator, an alarm system was basically saying, "Don't touch that...
That's really a survival mechanism we have as human beings. And we may even not at a conscious level be able to explain why we're cutting back. We're just doing it. You will just do it by intuition. And if you start to save money by intuition, you will never ever question it again...
...timeless popularity of cooking shows: "Cooking shows have taught us, changed us and changed with us. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, they have evolved to satisfy our yearning for quality, affordable, environmentally and health conscious, easy to prepare yet sophisticated food. And while many viewers may not have the time to execute the lessons nor the money to afford the high-end ingredients or appliances used by cooking show hosts, these shows prevail because everyone eats, knows something about food, and can relate to the endeavor...
Moreover, we recognize the potential for confusion following this plan. As such, CDC experts should be the ones to determine objective guidelines for what constitutes a health-conscious decision and what does not. Experts should design programs with concrete standards in place and publish guidelines stating what exactly composes an activity that is acceptable to incentivize, in order to avoid abuse by businesses. Additionally, we hope that Congress takes measures to offset the increased complexity of the tax code, and the difficulty workers will face when trying to figure out whether a free gym-membership, for example, must be accounted...
...like to write in it? It really was a blast, it was like writing poetry instead of prose. There were so many rules for what I was doing intentionally wrong. For example, I couldn't use the prefix un- - unhappy, unconscious. With Pygmy it was no happy or no conscious. I found myself saying no conscious a lot. You end up internalizing all that language and it lingers in your head and alters the way you think about things. It allows me to make very ordinary, everyday things like Wal-Mart and megachurches and high schools that much more fresh...