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...dentist each year, whether you consider the resale value of your car when you make a purchase - things that deal with the future. [Placing a high value on the future is] associated with driving a hybrid car and drinking red wine. Folks high on the me-Too factor drink whatever people around them drink. People with a high level of brand loyalty - which we find out by determining how many types of cuisine you like, how many cars you looked at before you made a decision - drink domestic beers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Make Decisions | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...type of person who cares about others, you're also more likely to support same-sex marriage. If you like to gather a lot of information when you're making choices, that tips you toward approving of same-sex relationships. If you're high on the me-Too factor and you know people who are gay or lesbian, that makes you more willing to support same-sex partners. That works in our statistical model, and I think that works in Dick Cheney's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Make Decisions | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...have shown a previously unidentified risk factor for MS,” said Tanuja Chitnis, an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and a co-author of the paper. “The results may have implications for reducing obesity in adolescence, which is certainly a big concern today...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obesity Linked to Multiple Sclerosis | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...could yet be a factor. Palin has told friends she stands ready to help candidates in the 2010 elections, despite her negligible influence in the Nov. 3 off-year showings - newly elected GOP governors in New Jersey and Virginia largely rejected her help, and her chosen candidate in a special election for a New York congressional race lost a seat that had been reliably Republican since the Civil War. Nevertheless, she exerts a particular sway on her party's officeholders, goading them to avoid compromise with the President, making it more difficult for Obama to achieve his campaign pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rogue Returns: On the Road with Sarah Palin | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...We’d like to educate more scientists and engineers for the nation and the world,” Schmill said. “That’s really the motivating factor for us to bring enrollment back...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT May Add 300 To Undergrad Class | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

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