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...results: In Burger's experiment, 70% of participants were willing to proceed past the maximum 150-volt jolt level; in the corresponding Milgram experiment, 83% continued. The variance, Burger explains, is not statistically significant...
...Thanks to the sanitary injection rooms and equipment, infection contraction and death also decreases. The risk of overdosing also diminishes because when presented with an almost unlimited amount of heroin per day—up to 300 milligrams, three times a day—addicts quickly realize that a maximum dose does not necessarily result in the same ‘flash’ that a lower dose does, and thus, decrease their heroin intake voluntarily...
...climate-change negotiations can be a depressing experience - maximum rhetoric expended on minimum accomplishment. In Poznan the atmosphere seems even bleaker. For one thing, economic catastrophe has made it harder for leaders to justify cutting carbon. A recent study by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), the independent investigative arm of Congress, sharply criticized the Clean Development Mechanism, the U.N. body that oversees the Kyoto Protocol's carbon-trading practices. The GAO found that carbon offsets - whereby a company in a rich nation pays for a carbon-reducing project elsewhere in lieu of cutting emissions itself - were at best a "temporary...
...with a host family. Arrangements skew towards the former; in 21 of the 26 Harvard Summer School Programs for 2009, participants will live with other students either in dorms or in a hotel. Students mostly attend classes at a local university. In this setup it is hard to get maximum exposure to another culture. Students tend to become friends with the people they associate with the most: their classmates and housemates. These are usually other Americans or foreigners who can speak English and are familiar with American norms. In effect, students create an American bubble in another country. They live...
...statement. Republic also said that it told Bank of America about possible WARN compliance issues in October 2008. For its part, Bank of America has simply said, "As a creditor of the company, we continue to honor all of our agreements with the company, and have provided the maximum amount of funding we can under the terms of our agreement." Bank of America was recently the recipient of $25 billion in federal bailout funds...