Word: minding
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...aisle just about siphons you into the museum. But the high expanses of bare white wall, a Modernist fetish, are a little bland. You wonder what might have been done in this space by Herzog and de Meuron, the designers of the Olympic Stadium in Beijing, who don't mind jolting their surfaces...
...m.p.h.? It's the fastest-closing window in the world." And the neighbor will say, "That's kind of cool." Well, it has nothing to do with the functionality of the car, but that's a rational argument he will make. The car company is phrasing it in his mind so he can justify the purchase. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...
...what else is hot in consumer psychology right now? Companies will start to play a mind game with consumers that is slightly different from what we've seen in the past. Some companies assume that the consumer doesn't have any money. But now they're learning that that's not the case. Consumers still do have money - at least many do - but the reason that they're not spending it is because they're afraid they may lose the money in the future...
...finance the infrastructure required for an extra person on staff. Many nonprofits have seen their own revenues fall in recent months and undertaken layoffs themselves. Just finding the money for another computer can be hard, says Esther Lardent, president of the Washington-based nonprofit Pro Bono Institute, never mind the cost of training and supervising of a brand-new lawyer. "Morale and office tensions also have to be considered," she adds. "At $75,000, these young people might be getting paid more than the most experienced attorney on staff...
...idea of God is that He is outside of time and space, outside of our capacity to measure. What we do have the technology to test is at least one proposition that suggests there might be more to life than just this. That's the question of whether the mind can operate when the brain has died. There's a woman named Pam Reynolds who went through what's called a standstill operation to remove a brain aneurysm. They chilled her body to 60 degrees, drained all the blood out of her head, took out the aneurysm, warmed...