Word: herds
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...fear. What you notice second are red, white, and blue flags in every shape and size hung like laundry...At the Pike's Peak Rodeo in Colorado Springs in August 2004, an Air Force general opens the show with 'Our boys over there are lassoing terrorists, they're riding herd, so let's RODEO!' The audience cheers. The emcee announces that Julia Child died today and that her favorite meal was 'Read meat and a bottle of gin.' The audience cheers again...
...test this herd behavior, Berns and his colleagues hooked 32 people up to brain-imaging equipment and watched them reckon with a group opinion (about whether two shapes were the same or different) that was clearly false. They found that the brain worked to integrate the false opinion into its perception of the world. In other words, if other people start selling a stock you thought was valuable, you may want to do the same - at first...
...sight of an ascendant Brown sticks in the craws of Conservatives. In private, they're Oliver Hardys, expostulating over the nice mess they say Brown has gotten the country into. In public, they mostly retreat from confrontation like a herd of Stan Laurels. Opposition parties have pledged for now to support the government's efforts to end the turmoil, but are itching to emphasize Brown's own role in creating it. "When he rewrote financial regulation in 1997, Gordon Brown took away the Bank of England's power to call time on the build-up of debt," Conservative Shadow Chancellor...
...will take courage to break from the herd," Touati continues, "but those who do it first are the masters of the market down the line...
...future studies may prove useful for distilling the specific effect of circumcision - and perhaps for future public-health strategies. "For every insertive man who is protected, there might be a receptive man who isn't infected, for the same reason why women get protected...in other words, from a herd-immunity phenomenon," says Dr. Sten Vermund, director of the Institute for Global Health at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, who co-authored an editorial in the current issue of J.A.M.A...