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...free pie crusts, says director of product development Patricia Verduin, were as dense and chewy "as wonton wrappers." After 18 months, ConAgra has managed to strip several of its products of the offending fats, most notably its Kid Cuisine line. The customer response? Not a word. "The best reaction," notes Verduin, "is no reaction...
...thinking.” Magical thinking is a form of denial combined with childlike logic which causes Didion to believe that if she does certain things, then her husband will return: the game will be over and everyone will stop pretending he is dead. While denial is a common reaction to tragedy, Didion takes it to wretched levels of absurdity, demanding an autopsy out of the absurd conviction that if something simple caused Dunne’s death then perhaps it could be reversed. Somehow, even after the autopsy, the funeral, and the cremation, she panics, convinced that Dunne...
...aims to restore that balance by decreasing activity in the healthy half. In the study, the patients were asked to perform simple tasks like pressing a button in response to signals displayed on a computer screen. Patients treated with TMS showed up to a 50 percent improvement in their reaction time, while those patients who received a placebo treatment did not show any significant improvement. Since the publication of his study in the journal Neurology in May, Fregni has tested a longer variation of the procedure on 16 additional patients. “Finding the right dosage for treatment...
...recent poll by the Forsa agency in Berlin, 87% of young people aged 18 to 30 said they were in favor of marriage n favor of marriage, 90% said they wanted (or would probably want) children and 80% believed in one true love. All of that is "a reaction," according to Ulrich Schneekloth, a researcher at TNS Infratest Social Research in Munich, against "the excessive individualization" of the 1968 generation. Conservative politicians have already tuned in to that social change. "The values of the 1950s are very important to us," Dieter Althaus, 47, the cdu Governor of Thuringia...
Stephen A. Greyser ’56, Chapman Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at HBS and in the past both an MBA student under Raymond in WAC and then a case-writer and faculty member for the program said the reaction to WAC was “fear now, respect later...