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...Cleland to admit that most people who buy diet pills know they don't work, and that the Venn diagram of those people and the people who read FTC reports doesn't have enough overlap to be worth 2 1/2 years of effort. What he didn't understand, and why he should use whatever little bit of remaining FTC budget he has left to take his staff to a Eugene O'Neill play, is that people want to be deceived. You don't go to John Edward because you believe, but because it's nice to pretend you believe...
...Cleland to admit that most people who buy diet pills know they don't work, and that the Venn diagram of those people and the people who read FTC reports doesn't have enough overlap to be worth 2 1/2 years of effort. What he didn't understand, and why he should use whatever little bit of remaining FTC budget he has left to take his staff to a Eugene O'Neill play, is that people want to be deceived. You don't go to John Edward because you believe, but because it's nice to pretend you believe...
Each of these compounds is slightly different, and scientists are just beginning to figure out how they all work together (see diagram). What is clear is that all of them are important nodes along an elaborate network of interconnecting pathways that feed into, and out of, the hypothalamus, a brain structure that is the control center for weight regulation. The body produces hormones that activate the hypothalamus. The neurons in the hypothalamus send new messages back to the body. And just like subliminal messages spliced into a filmstrip, these signals powerfully affect our behavior even when we are not aware...
...sometimes they do: the residents of Yeonpyeong Island consider the Golden Sea to be part of their birthright and they view the Red Limit Line as political claptrap. "It's absolutely meaningless when we are fishing," says Choi Ryul, kneeling near the island's lighthouse to sketch a diagram of the fishing grounds for a visitor. "There are more crabs across the Red Limit Line...
...contrast to MIT’s tidy pyramid, Harvard’s diagram showed a sprawling, wildly-branching tree...