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There are few things people won't do for money. That's the thinking behind a new weight-loss study published by behavioral economists Kevin Volpp of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School and George Lowenstein of Carnegie Mellon University. With a shocking 71% of Americans considered overweight or obese and most weight-reduction plans proving helpful at getting pounds off but far less so at keeping them off, Volpp and Lowenstein decided it was time to quit fooling around. Never mind fad diets and you-can-do-it affirmations. Better to just reward successful...
Volpp and Lowenstein designed a program in which a group of volunteers enrolled in a 16-week diet program with monthly weigh-ins and an overall goal of shedding 16 lb. The volunteers were then divided into three groups. The first group participated in a lottery program in which those who came closest to or exceeded the weight-loss goal received a variable cash prize determined by how many pounds they shed. The second group agreed to a deposit contract in which they anted up some of their own money as part of a pool. Those who lost the most...
...Wall Street crisis, Too Big to Fail, for Viking, while his New York Times colleague Joe Nocera, along with Vanity Fair contributing editor Bethany McLean, will do a long-term take on the crisis for Portfolio, with their advance rumored to be as much as $1.6 million. Roger Lowenstein, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, is writing Six Days That Shook the World for Penguin Press, which examines the week when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, Merrill Lynch was bought and AIG received a government bailout...
...Will you take me back? -Chadley Lowenstein from Hollywood...
...into an informal club and served four terms before leaping to the Nixon White House. There he rose through various mid-level posts and became, within four years, NATO ambassador. He was always unconventional; even in the depths of that partisan era, he maintained a close friendship with Allard Lowenstein, the famed liberal organizer. Rumsfeld took Lowenstein to Republican conventions; Lowenstein returned the favor...