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...another experiment, the researchers gave people two bowls of potato chips. Type A was thicker than type B; the experimental group was told type A was 1.5 millimeters thick, while type B was 0.8 millimeters. As expected, once people were given the exact measurements, they much more often said they'd choose to buy type A - 51% of the time, compared with 37% for the control group. Yet when people were given the two bowls of chips and told to eat however much of whichever type they'd like, the two groups ate type A at practically the same rate...
...great bed had broken beneath the weight of its energetic occupants. Felicity now snatched up a thick splinter of wood and thrust it into the fireplace. Holding her torch aloft, she sprang upon Zalathal’s back. For a moment she hesitated, looking around her at Roxanna’s chamber. It had to burn. Almost delicately, she touched the flaming tip of the torch to the vanity table. The wood curled slowly away and then burst into flames. Felicity dug her heels into the stallion’s flanks...
...everything bagel• 2 Tbsp. garlic cream cheese (store-bought variety is fine)• 1 thick slice of Spam• 1 slice of Gruyere or Swiss cheese• 1 large slice of tomato...
...Charles Goodyear patented the process of vulcanizing rubber, inadvertently ushering in an entirely new era in contraception - condoms as thick as bicycle tires and still considered reusable. But getting one's hands on this newfangled "technology" became a whole lot harder in 1873, when Congress passed the Comstock Law, prohibiting the transportation of obscene material like prophylactics and pornography...
...Peter Reid is doing that thing with his mouth again. First, the skin around his sky-blue eyes starts to wrinkle. Then the corners of his thin lips slowly curl up toward thick sideburns. Then you catch a glimpse of dentistry and it's unmistakable. He's actually doing it: Peter Reid is smiling...