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...paper in the journal Current Biology shows for the first time that by tinkering with levels of dopamine in the brain, researchers were be able to influence people's future decisions in a reliable, predictable way. Led by Tali Sharot and Tamara Shiner of the the Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging at University College London, scientists presented 61 healthy volunteers with 80 different vacation locations, such as Brazil, Thailand and Greece, and asked the volunteers to rate how happy they thought they would be visiting each place. Later, 29 of the participants were given 100 mg of levodopa...
...from roughly $1.5 billion to $1.1 billion, after accounting for gifts and payout. Bacow suggested in the article that Tufts would avoid putting money in hedge funds, which he compared to “black boxes,” requiring investors to relinquish control of assets and put their trust in external managers...
...whole should be separated from the e-mail signed by McLeod. Yet in the end these missteps on the part of individuals tarnish the reputation of the organization that they represent, and unfortunately the UC will have its work cut out going forward to regain the trust of students...
...really like Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Prime Minister is a wise leader." - George W. Bush, former U.S. President, complimenting Singh the day after he called Bush a "great friend of India" (Press Trust of India...
According to the Rhodes Trust Web site, the criteria used for selecting Scholars are “literary and scholastic attainments, energy to use one’s talents to the full, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship, moral force of character and instincts to lead, and to take an interest in one’s fellow beings...