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Both the fat and the skinny versions of the actor scooped five tablespoons of food (approximately 71 g of granola or 108 g of M&M's) onto a plate. That's a heap. The subjects followed suit, taking more food than they normally would have had they eaten alone. However, the subjects took significantly higher portions when the actor was thin. During the movie - a five-minute clip from the Will Smith film I, Robot - they also ate significantly more if the actor was skinny. "It's our intuition sometimes that you don't want to eat with...
...decades later, China has fully embraced globalization at home and has burst onto the world's stage in a largely positive fashion. It now has both interests and a presence in parts of the world completely new to China - such as Latin America and the Middle East - and enjoys rising international prestige. Beijing has generally managed its relations well with the major world powers: the U.S., Russia and the E.U. It has transformed its regional diplomacy in Asia, reasserted a role in Africa and become much more deeply engaged with international organizations and across a range of global-governance issues...
...What They're Dumping in Belgium: There was no honey, but Belgium was a land flowing with milk on Sept. 16 when farmers dumped 790,000 gal. (3 million L) of dairy product onto their fields to protest low prices. In an effort to draw attention to the cause, thousands of European Union milk farmers have also launched a milk strike, halting deliveries to industrial dairies and demanding strict production quotas...
...many ways, his key insight was not historical but psychological: each side projects its own worst attributes onto the other, demonizing the enemy as an exaggerated and negative version of itself. We see some of that in our culture today. It's been a long and fraught summer in the political realm, and the hope for bipartisan harmony now seems like a naive fantasy. Each side, to quote Hofstadter, claims that what is at stake is "always a conflict about absolute good and absolute evil...
...staffers because of budget constraints, she said that she always chooses to break the news herself, and confessed to tearing up at a meeting after having to personally lay off more than a dozen workers in Mass. Port Authority after Sept. 11 to push Logan airport back onto solid financial ground...