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...small but rigorous study, Andrade separated 40 participants into two groups of 20. All 40 had just finished an unrelated psychological experiment, and many were thinking of going home (or to the pub). They were asked, instead, whether they wouldn't mind spending an additional five minutes helping with research. The participants were led into a quiet room and asked to listen to a 2½-min. tape that they were told would be "rather dull...
...house-poor and increasingly unemployed, U.S. shoppers are cutting back. Consumer spending in the U.S. dropped at an annual rate of more than 3% in both the third and fourth quarters of 2008 - the steepest consecutive quarterly declines on record. As incomes shrink and America adopts a more frugal mind-set, some economists do not expect shoppers to return to free-spending ways for years - or perhaps generations. Economist Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, says that "there is good reason to believe the capitulation of the American consumer has only just begun." U.S. consumer spending as a percentage...
...Madame Cézanne. With her lavender flesh and gentle contours, Marie-Thérčse is a more yielding figure. But Picasso also lends a pulsating charge to her image--the pulse of sex. Given the phallic upper half of her head, an indicator of what's on her dreaming mind, you wonder just what that girl's hands...
Religion is a kind of word game. It's whatever it means to those individuals who are following that belief system. If you say something has got spirit or "I feel the spirit," to me, that would be more appropriate--spirit in the Aristotelian sense, that the mind and body and spirit are one thing. Which is different from religion...
...Connor was the No. 1 wrestler in the country at the 145-pound weight class. With college scouts following him like the paparazzi on Brangelina, O’Connor was finally forced to give up soccer and decide on a school. He had a nearby Ivy in mind. “Growing up, I was pretty committed to going to Cornell my whole life,” O’Connor recalls. “That’s 45 minutes from home. I grew up being a Big Red wrestling fan.” He loved his Cornell visit...