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This same phenomenon could explain similar results in recent studies of dieters, says Pierce. Two years ago, scientists at the University of Texas reported in an eight-year study that for every can of diet soda that a person drank, he raised his risk of being overweight by 41%, compared to a 30% increase in drinkers of regular, sugared drinks. Earlier this year, another study of diet-soda drinkers came to a similar conclusion, this time about metabolic syndrome, the dangerous constellation of risk factors, such as obesity, high cholesterol and insulin resistance, that increases the likelihood of heart disease...
...rebel soldiers were sentenced to between 14 and 28 days in the brig and removed from combat duty. "This is a phenomenon that endangers the basis on which the IDF ([Israeli Defense Forces] operates, as an army of the people in a democratic country, and its obligations to carry out the tasks assigned to it," said General Gadi Shamni, chief of the Central Command...
Other experts say it's not that simple. Paul Maltseff, an intellectual property legal counsel for Intermec Inc., a technology company that did an independent review of Goggin's invention, says the device is "a phenomenon of interest," but that more research and development needs to be done on both sensors and the wireless switch before the technology is effective...
...common sense tells us that oftentimes people do choose friends with kindred vices, a phenomenon best expressed in the jocular T-shirt sentiment A FRIEND WITH WEED IS A FRIEND INDEED. The same can be said for a friend with junk food. If Ringo Starr could get high with a little help from his friends, he could surely get pie with a little help from his friends...
...propensity to challenge convention is one of the things that differentiates a hedgie, and it's something that humans are not necessarily wired to do, says Jim Leitner, manager of the Falcon Family Fund. Leitner spoke of this phenomenon at the conference and in Inside the House of Money, Steven Drobny's collection of interviews with macro hedgies. "Humans in general are biased to look for confirmatory evidence," Leitner asserts in the book. "When someone is bullish on oil, they tend to pick out the pro-oil arguments in whatever they read. Very few people train themselves to look...