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There are at least two answers to this question. One is that Americans with money are the kids in the global candy store; they want everything, and they buy everything, laying waste to the environment and helping enact political policies that help the rich get even richer. In this model, rich Americans will never give up their God-given right to buy a hulking new six-burner range even if they never cook...
Social psychologists study this sort of question for a living, and unfortunately for the idealists, academic research shows that greed will never die and excess will never end. In fact, as the recession deepens - and as the rich hear more and more stories of once secure Americans having to forgo everything from new clothes to basic health care - the wealthy will almost certainly start to spend again, and with renewed avidity. Why? Not because the rich are greedy but because they are human...
...answer the question, the authors of the paper replicated an experiment from an important 2007 Journal of Consumer Research study. That paper (here's a PDF) found that people whose self-control had been depleted by taking a demanding test were willing to spend more on items like watches and cars than those who didn't take the test. The Yale and UCLA researchers changed the experiment by having their test subjects read a sad story before putting a value on the same consumer goods. In the story, a struggling waiter arrives at his fancy restaurant hungry...
...personnel from the British intelligence community as well as from ministries with oversight of the security services and perhaps even to the pinnacles of decision-making in Westminster - and Washington. "It would be very surprising if the decision [on Mohamed] was not taken at a high level. The question is how high," says Stafford Smith, who is also the director of the legal charity Reprieve. During a live broadcast of Britain's nightly Channel 4 News on March 26, the attorney was more explicit. "The British investigation cannot just stop at the British people because the real torturers ... were...
...serving monarch, some capturing him in ceremonial regalia, one showing him playing a jazz saxophone. Apirat shook his head as water dripped on the images, which were left behind when the Red Shirts abandoned their post and started the trip back to their homes across the nation. An unspoken question hovered in the air: What were pictures of Thailand's King, beloved by millions, doing forsaken in the middle of what hours before had been a potential battle zone? (See pictures of the week's protests...