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The participants were then presented with various opportunities to consider and choose different foods. In the first round, they were given a simple menu that included only three items: chicken nuggets, french fries and a baked potato. To eliminate the confounding variable of money, the researchers told the volunteers that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dieter Self-Control: Why You Make Bad Choices | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

Wilcox and his collaborators repeated the study two more times with different foods: for one it was a bacon cheeseburger, a chicken sandwich and a fish sandwich, with a veggie burger thrown in later as a ringer; for the other it was fudge-covered Oreos, plus two other types of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dieter Self-Control: Why You Make Bad Choices | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

His thinking is this: you send the magazine to your selected 110,000 rich folks (chosen, more or less, by zip code and whether they have at least $1 million equity in their home as well as a minimum net worth of $2 million). Those prospective readers are so psyched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The $20 Magazine: Worth's Odd Recession Strategy | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

And then there's Georgia. Enrollment at the state's 33 technical colleges has jumped 10% over this time last year, with the biggest growth (12%) in students ages 21 to 35 and an 8% spike in students over age 36. Many of those folks are workers displaced by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tuition Help for the Unemployed Gains Traction | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

I work for a company acquired by AIG, and I'm a victim too [March 30]. What I'd like to know is that more than 99% of the folks who work for the insurance giant are not to blame for this pathetic mess. I work mostly with nonprofits like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIG's Bad Reverberations | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

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