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Note the simplicity of the words. This is a different Obama from the one who, full of himself last winter, filled his speeches with gaseous oratory like "We are the ones we've been waiting for." The personal transformation has been gradual, subtle - and the words have grown simpler as...
The results of this genetic experiment are mixed. Chandni Chowk (named for a working-class neighborhood in Delhi) is probably a decent sampler for Americans who've never seen a full-out Bollywood musical, since it goes heavy on the action scenes and light on the big dance numbers. The...
In one of the most anticipated shows--ABC's Lost, which returns for Season 5--that island disappeared last May. Having crashed on a mysterious isle, the survivors of Oceanic Air Flight 815 are learning ever more about the local weirdness, the legacy of an experiment aimed at manipulating space...
This event, like all those held by Boston SOS, had no cause. According to organization founder James Cobalt, “No Pants” is a social experiment to see how people will react to the unexpected in a very mundane environment.
...adds that similarly executed "deception studies," in which experimenters withhold disclosure about the nature of the experiment to participants, have revealed troubling examples of human callousness before. It was studies in the 1970s, he points out, that identified the psychological phenomenon of "diffusion of responsibility," which gained notoriety following the brutal public slaying of Kitty Genovese in New York City in 1964, during which none of her neighbors in the surrounding apartment buildings responded to her cries for help or called the police...