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...brain scientists are asking volunteers to ponder purchasing choices while lying inside high-tech brain scanners. The resulting real-time images indicate where and how the brain analyzes options, weighs risks and rewards, factors in experiences and emotions and ultimately sets a preference. "We can use brain imaging to gain insight into the mechanisms behind people's decisions in a way that is often difficult to get at simply by asking a person or watching their behavior," says Dr. Gregory Berns, a psychiatrist at Emory University...
...business is most concerned with the economic well-being of those at the lowest rungs of the supply chain. The shirts are 100% African "from grower to sewer," according to the company's literature. The student vendors, all volunteers, clearly have not signed on for their own monetary gain. Says senior Andy Mitchelides, a marketing major at Miami U. and the president of Edun Live on Campus: "We feel honored to be part of something this cool. Eventually we'll look back and be able to say we played a part in reducing world poverty...
University officials yesterday unveiled their most detailed plans yet for the development of a new campus in Allston over the next half century, and said they hope to gain the City of Boston’s approval and begin construction across the Charles River before the end of the year...
...does it feel to be part of the E.U.? It is a very pleasant feeling. To be European is not something that is self-evident. One has to gain one's place in the European family...
...couple—as well as the obvious value of hospital visitation rights, child custody, and retirement benefits—the stakes for gay and lesbian couples are clear. But we fail to see what the state, or for that matter those opposed to same-sex marriage, would gain in return by such a ban—besides moral edification. Since same-sex marriage was legalized following the SJC’s 2004 ruling, over 8,000 same-sex couples have married in the Commonwealth. We have yet to see any evidence that the sky is falling.Referenda have several important...