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...nine when the eating disorder sort of took hold. It started with bulimia. I spent a lot of time alone, and a lot of that time was spent really feeling like my emotions were ruling my life, like I couldn't control my thoughts. What I discovered with the bulimia and later the anorexia was that it did provide something of a homemade mood stabilizer. It allowed me a few minutes, a few hours of feeling like I was able to calm my thoughts. My thoughts were entirely focused on food...
...works for the nearby Palo Alto Research Center, replicated his study, then appended a second part: an hour after their forays online, the same volunteers were told they were participating in an unrelated study about online romance. They were instructed to pick two potential dates out of nine photos in an online-dating pool. People who had used attractive avatars seemed to hang on to some of the self-assurance that came from being handsome, choosing better-looking dates than those who had homely avatars. "They thought they had a shot," says Bailenson...
...Syesha is a mystery. In seven out of the last nine weeks, she has been amongst the bottom three vote-receiving contestants, yet she continues to outlast seemingly stronger competitors. The past three weeks in a row she has been one of the bottom two vote-getters, suggesting she should be ousted the next week. And yet, every time, she survives...
...many months before the election, these numbers are not very meaningful. But they point to a key goal of the McCain campaign: upset the traditional partisan divide with a new generation of McCain-o-Crats. This is a defensive strategy as much as an offensive one, given the nine-point advantage that Democrats have in party identification nationwide. (According to another recent Pew poll, only 36 percent of registered voters identify themselves as Democrats and 27 percent as Republicans, the lowest G.O.P. number in at least 16 years.) Campaign staff say they see hope in Obama's recent trouble shoring...
...Aung Hlai Myintan were killed by the storm, spends her day combing the riverbank for things to salvage. Rumor has it that someone in a nearby village found a piece of gold lost in the storm. But Than Maw isn't saying whether she has found anything herself. Nine people, she has heard, were killed in a village across the river by hungry looters...