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Even before it starts tomorrow morning, the 2006 election is already shaping up as one massive lab experiment in how we cast and count 80 million votes or more. When you figure that most of us will have the chance to make anywhere from 20 to 25 choices at polling stations - on statewide races, local elections, constitutional amendments, local options and your county library and community college board elections - we are talking about tracking and tallying upwards of 2 billion different decisions. It's a wonder...
...that it could develop an effective drug for diabetics within five to seven years. He was skeptical about the development and approval prospects of a drug for aging. Joseph A. Baur, a research fellow in pathology who works with Sinclair, said that many researchers in Sinclair’s lab, including himself, are already taking resveratrol supplements. Baur, who also worked on the study, added that the paper presents exciting possibilities for research in the future. “There’s so much more to be found here,” he said...
...consultants to transform their lives into compelling advertisements. Fran Hartman, a bubbly New Hampshire widow, had posted a Yahoo! Personals ad touting her fondness for seafood and back rubs, and herself as "a young looking 66 year old grandmother. I still work as a courier for a lab company. I love to feel wanted and needed." But when she didn't meet a suitable man, Hartman, now 67, paid New York City--based PersonalsTrainer $159.95 to polish her narrative. Her new entry begins "Whether listening to Merle Haggard while driving in my courier vehicle or settling in for some fried...
...meticulously check your packages to see if anyone’s broken a seal. You can eye the kid sitting next to you in the computer lab to make sure he’s not watching you type your PIN. But are those precautionary measures necessary to protect your identity, or are conspiracy theorists in for a disappointment? Say a package is oozing with strange goo, or is emitting ticking noises. Would it be unceremoniously torn open in a back room only to be revealed as a crushed pie or new watch? University Mail Services, which supervises the mail...
...Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think,” Wansink, director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, presents dozens of studies analyzing the way people make decisions about food. Wansink argues that people are manipulated into eating “mindlessly” by invisible forces outside them, ranging from atmosphere to eating companions to dish size. “Mindless Eating” endeavors to teach how to “remove the cues that cause you to overeat and how to reengineer your kitchen and your habits...