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Most people dream enthusiastically at night, their dreams seemingly occupying hours, even though most last only a few minutes. Most people also read great meaning into their nocturnal visions. In fact, according to a new study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the vast majority of people in three very different countries - India, South Korea and the United States - believe that their dreams reveal meaningful hidden truths...
...authors of the study - psychologists Carey Morewedge of Carnegie Mellon University and Michael Norton of Harvard - offer a few theories. For one, dreams often feature familiar people and locations, which means we are less willing to dismiss them outright. Also, because we can't trace the content of dreams to an external source - because that content seems to arise spontaneously and from within - we can't explain it the way we can explain random thoughts that occur to us during waking hours. If you find yourself sitting at your desk and thinking about a bomb exploding in your office...
...nicest restaurants in the guides, which makes sense if you’re a student traveler,” said Emily W. Cunningham ’09, a researcher-writer in 2007 and a Crimson Sports editor.A ROCKY ROADTraveling on HSA’s dime may seem like a dream opportunity, but Let’s Go has experienced its share of tragedy. In 2001, Haley S. Surti ’01 was killed in a bus accident in Peru while researching for Let’s Go. Since then, the company has banned night travel and given mandatory self...
...gays and its unslakable fascination with the Holocaust. And the "was": Slumdog. With its skimpy budget ($14 million) and mongrel pedigree, it might seem like the odd dog out; but the movie is really classic Hollywood - not just in its inspirational story of a poor kid pursuing an impossible dream, but in its goal of keeping a mass audience entertained...
...accept strict new regulations imposed on the U.S. economy by outsiders. President Barack Obama wooed the world with talk of change, but resistance to regulation remains strong in the U.S, where the ability of companies and markets to invent, innovate, and take risks remains fundamental to the American dream. "There's an enduring view in the U.S. that the national economy is a powerful machine that crashes every now and again, but which eventually fixes itself and roars back to the front of the pack," says Mark Duckenfield, a professor of politics in the world economy at the London School...