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...according to research by Harvard psychologists - and the reason is something they call "attentional collapse." When we imagine future experiences, we tend to compare them with alternative experiences - experiences we've had in the past, or other experiences we might have before or after. But the fact is that none of those alternatives come into play once we're actually in the moment. That's what Daniel Gilbert, author and Harvard psychology professor, means by "attentional collapse": it's the idea that when we are actually having an engaging, encompassing experience, it acts like a black hole of imagination, sucking...
...only 4% for other industrial powers). There are some encouraging signs. Bank lending rates are now in the 10% range, down from 17% in 1980, and mortgages have fallen from 15% to a more affordable 10%. Productivity is up, and the rate of wage hikes is down. But none of these signs of improving health are proof that the rebound will persist or that Thatcherism is a success. Although the Prime Minister is convinced that Britain is on the motorway to recovery, many economic experts have doubts. Even official Treasury projections indicate that growth will slow again, un employment will...
...University of Kansas study of college women over the past decade found a significant increase in sexual activity during the years 1973-78 but almost none in the past five years. Says Meg Gerrard, the psychology professor in charge of the survey: "I think we have reached a ceiling with 50% to 60% of college women active sexually...
...real and grave, and inaction by the House in the face of these risks is unacceptable," says White House spokesperson Dana Perino. Democrats counter that many of the authorizations in the stopgap law will remain in effect for another year after it expires. "They've manufactured a crisis where none exists," says Jim Manely, spokesman for Senate majority leader Harry Reid. More than anything, though, the battle is a test of whether the country has moved past the "whatever-it-takes" politics of national security that followed 9/11...
...should the 796 superdelegates in the Democratic Party listen to? A group of Representatives, Senators, governors, party members and ex-officials, these folks represent 20% of all the delegates needed to be nominated but are not bound to vote according to any constituency. Exactly none of them were elected by primary voters to be delegates. The superdelegates were created in 1982 to bring some power back to the party establishment after the primary process had gotten a little too democratic and unruly-and had succeeded in nominating some unelectable candidates for the general election...