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...pack containing Lay's potato chips - a quintessentially American brand - and one containing British crisps in odd flavors such as "Camembert and plum." After they made their picks, the students filled out questionnaires that measured how much change is going on in their lives. (The questionnaires asked them to rate their level of agreement or disagreement with statements like "I am making a lot of changes this month.") And surprisingly, those undergoing more changes were significantly more likely to have picked the British crisps over the Lay's. (See pictures: "What the World Eats, Part...
...Olympic officials do not consider AIS to necessarily confer an advantage. The seven genetically male athletes with AIS at the Atlanta Olympics were allowed to compete as women. However, the incidence of AIS in Atlanta - seven cases among 3,000 athletes - compared with the rate in the general population, which is 1 in 20,000, suggests that partial AIS can boost athletic ability, Ritchie says. "But," he adds, "it's never been proven that women found to be genetically male have any physical advantage above what might otherwise be seen in the extremes of genetically female women...
...have circulating in actual currency and if added to the national debt, it will raise the tally by 13%. (To understand debt vs. deficit, think of a credit card: debt is the outstanding balance on the card while the deficit is the amount added each fiscal year.) At this rate, the Administration estimates that the U.S. could face a cumulative $9 trillion in deficits over the next decade - $2 trillion more than previously thought. (Read "How to Understand a Trillion-Dollar Deficit...
...been there so long," says Andre Williams, a Harvard-educated real estate attorney and Miami Gardens city councilman, pointing at one of the houses and shaking his head at the state of the solid middle-class, African-American community he grew up in. "We had a 70% homeownership rate in this city. We took a lot of pride in that...
...ROBERT MUGABE Zimbabwe 29 years Now part of a power-sharing government, he has driven his country's inflation rate up to about 89.7 sextillion percent...