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...Blackberries, no work e-mails, nothing—for one evening every week after 6 p.m. At first, these people sort of freaked out. They had "tummy rumbles," which are "gut worries or concerns about their project," the WSJ reports. They felt like they should be doing something...well, productive, during these free evenings...
...this 2009 Truman Scholarship winner said. “I love it there.” Wanna be like these girls? “I encourage anyone at Harvard who’s trying to figure out what they want to do, to listen to their gut and their heart, and follow their dreams and their own individual aspirations,” Redd said. With advice like that, it’s easy to see why Glamour loves these women...
...have to be a Wall Street analyst to do the quick math: with a carrier cost of one-third of a penny, when a customer pays 15 cents to send a message, 98% of that 15 cents is pure profit. (Of course, you already knew that in your gut; that's why your stomach turns every time you examine your cell-phone bill...
...Conversely, what are the most persuasive arguments in favor of human enhancement? There are intellectual arguments, but on a gut level, what is most persuasive for me personally is comparing the best times of my life with the worst times. The difference is pretty big. So I ask, Why can't it be like the best times more often? Then I observe that there are all kinds of biological constraints that make this difficult or impossible. Some form of enhancement would be needed to mitigate these constraints...
Biderman believes that insider trades shoot higher when there's a disconnect between broad market opinions and what business executives feel in their gut. "When [insiders think] things are going better than most people think, they buy stock," he says. "When things are going worse than people think, they sell." (Read "Q&A: Why the Stock Market Looks Bullish for Autumn...