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...unlike Loser Williams’ name, Levitt’s title is—to some extent—fitting. Levitt’s book probes a cornucopia of freakish everyday anomalies. Doesn’t it freak you out that eight percent of men on dating websites are married? It’s also pretty freaky that when the U.S. tax code began to require Social Security numbers for listed dependents, seven million American children “disappeared.” Who knew that such fun and interesting questions could be solved through incredibly difficult multiple regressions...
...tends to be a long-term investor, and don't let the fact that he's 87 fool you," says friend Mason, suggesting that Kerkorian will wait patiently for a GM turnaround. Says Ralph Whitworth, a financier who worked with Kerkorian in the '90s: "He's not a control freak. He just likes to get good returns...
...freak out collectively because a student threw up into a bag to signify his violent disgust for an organization that has committed torture. But we don’t have a problem puking our guts out after a night of drinking in Loker Commons, assuming some FMO janitor will mop it up. Sometimes when that happens we’re even glad to expunge the calories we consumed at John Harvard’s, worried that they’ll go to our thighs. Which type of puking is more selfish and reprehensible...
...lightweight rowing, everybody has to be about the same size,” Schroeder says. “The only way you can rise to the top is by being a physiological freak. And that’s what Dave Stephens...
People caught up in disasters tend to fall into three categories. About 10% to 15% remain calm and act quickly and efficiently. Another 15% or less completely freak out--weeping, screaming or otherwise hindering the evacuation. That kind of hysteria is usually isolated and quickly snuffed out by the crowd. The vast majority of people do very little. They are "stunned and bewildered," as British psychologist John Leach put it in a 2004 article published in Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine...