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...song "Sugar Sugar" - never tells you what the company is selling, and it deliberately tries to associate the KGB initials with mystery and conspiracy. "We wanted to rebrand the KGB," says Stewart. "We're democratizing information, giving knowledge out to the broad public instead of taking it. Contrast that to the historical one, and people...
Anger, by contrast, usually makes people more willing to take risks. Harvard public-policy professor Jennifer Lerner has shown this in a series of papers. She and her colleagues gave random groups of people a classic risk test in which they were asked how they would respond to a disease outbreak expected to kill 600. The subjects were told that if program A were adopted, 200 people would be saved and 400 would die, and that if program B were adopted, there would be a one-third probability that all 600 would live and a two-thirds probability that...
...appointment of Nye, who would replace current ambassador Tom Schieffer, would complement the current administration’s call for a greater reliance on soft power, a marked contrast to what many of Obama’s top national security officials viewed as the overuse of military force, or “hard power,” during the past administration...
...fired or refused employment. And promotions, transfers, hirings, and firings are generally public events, known to co-workers. When an employer makes a decision of such open and definitive character, an employee can immediately seek out an explanation and evaluate it for pretext. Compensation disparities, in contrast, are often hidden from sight." - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, dissenting with the majority opinion that found Ledbetter's case was invalid...
...contrast, a Zanu-PF politburo member was delighted by the outcome. "[This] will take the country forward," he said. "It is the best way for Zimbabwe." As for what that way forward might be, deputy information minister Bright Matonga told the BBC: "There is not going to be any negotiations. I think that process is done, concluded ... and the President will form a new cabinet." - With reporting by Correspondents inside Zimbabwe See pictures of political tension in Zimbabwe...