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...kind of bipartisan vote Obama once aimed for: shoring up collapsing infrastructure, extending unemployment benefits, targeted tax cuts and relief - with strings attached - to state and local governments and embattled homeowners. Then take a deep breath, and let's have the debate he promised, the rigorous test of "Do we need this?" and "Can we afford it?", for all the other programs currently marinating in the bill, whether the honeybee subsidy or the Pell grants or the medical research or any of the proposed investments meant to spur long-term recovery and growth...
...comprehensive study to date, published in 2004 in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (it's available for free here), a team of three authors reviewed 37 previous papers on the psychological effects of cosmetic surgery; the papers dated back to 1960 and, overall, included more than 3,300 test subjects. The authors concluded that most people do feel better psychologically after undergoing cosmetic surgery, especially breast reductions. (Rivers had her breasts taken down some after giving birth to her daughter Melissa, which she says led to her developing "major bazonkas.") Only 3% to 14% of women who undergo reduction...
...editors: As the Crimson noted, the idea of Score Choice is hardly new. ACT already has such an option, and the College Board allowed it for nearly a decade for its Subject Tests. Score Choice rests on the same principle that has supported our admissions process for decades—that applicants should be free to present their own best case. We have always counted an applicant’s highest test scores and have allowed students to decide whether they wanted to send all their test scores. The new Score Choice policy aligns well with our belief that...
Anger, by contrast, usually makes people more willing to take risks. Harvard public-policy professor Jennifer Lerner has shown this in a series of papers. She and her colleagues gave random groups of people a classic risk test in which they were asked how they would respond to a disease outbreak expected to kill 600. The subjects were told that if program A were adopted, 200 people would be saved and 400 would die, and that if program B were adopted, there would be a one-third probability that all 600 would live and a two-thirds probability that...
...audit's finding was contested by the Pentagon. In a press release, the Army said it "had already identified problems raised by the IG and has moved aggressively to fix them." The statement says that "among the many important improvements already instituted is assigning responsibility for article testing to the Army Test and Evaluation Command instead of using outside contractors...