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...Rather than looking at menus from around the country, the researchers created their own examples of easy and hard-to-read type and analyzed subjects' responses. The experiment was limited in its sample size, and the researchers focused primarily on the psychological effects that lead people to draw conclusions based on font style and presentation. Song says that based on her findings, she might recommend that if restaurant owners want to give consumers the impression that their food is complex and of special value, they should consider styling their menus accordingly...
...years. His caricature of the Sandinista leader seldom changes: sullen, paunchy and balding, with a gleam of evil mischief in his eye. Ortega's wife, Rosario Murillo - who wears eccentric clothing, dangly jewelry, and talks about peace and love but has a reputation for being vindictive and Machiavellian - practically draws herself. "I draw her as a female version of Ortega, with less weight and lots more hair," said Guillen, who in his cartoons has dubbed her "La Chamuca," or devil woman - a moniker that's become a household nickname for the first lady...
...There are many lessons the Rainbow Nation can draw from its recent wave of anti-immigrant violence. Chief among them may be that xenophobia is less about color than about resources, and that the government would be well advised to concentrate less on the black-white divide of the past than on today's chasm between the haves and the have-nots. Apartheid may have made racist despots out of whites; globalization amid inequality and enduring poverty can make a bigot out of anybody...
...experts Julie Morgenstern and Peter Walsh each have their own approaches to decluttering, but they agree that the key to a successful purge is defining what your ideal life should look like and then deciding which of your belongings still fits in the picture. Both are also trying to draw attention to different kinds of clutter: physical, emotional, even temporal clutter. Some stuff keeps you stuck in the past and I-might-need-it-some-day clutter keeps you from focusing on the present. Here are a few of their tips figuring out what to keep and what to toss...
...child during the trip and hearing the teenagers discuss their impending conscription into the armed forces. (Israel requires men and women to serve time in the military upon reaching the age of majority.)Speaking before a crowd of about 100, the former president went on to draw a parallel between the indispensable contribution of the Israeli youths to their country and the responsibility of the graduating class to have a similar impact.“I really like how he was able to join a small event, an event for undergraduates, to the potential to really do something great...