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5 No New Taxes. The commission's plan, if adopted, avoids the unpleasant medicine of higher payroll taxes. Set at 12.4% of taxable wages, they already squeeze earners.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Social Security: How Would the Bush Plan Work? | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

Pharr said that Radcliffe’s own researchers could inform the University’s emerging initiative. She cited as one example Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin Banaji, a psychologist who has studied gender disparities in attitudes toward mathematics. In online tests that ask subjects to categorize various...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faust To Lead New Initiative | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

The power of endings has been demonstrated in some remarkable experiments by Kahneman. One such study involved people undergoing a colonoscopy, an uncomfortable procedure in which a flexible scope is moved through the colon. While a control group had the standard procedure, half the subjects endured an extra 60 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Science of Happiness | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

In baking, the results were mixed. Cakes made with substitutes didn't rise quite as high as cakes made with sugar, but the taste was good, and the substitutes whipped up into frosting just fine. (There was no discernible difference between the Equal and Splenda products.) Chocolate chip and oatmeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweet Stand-Ins | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

The cardiovascular benefit of a daily glass of red wine brought new meaning--and enthusiasm--to the toast "To your health!" Left out of the party was anybody who wanted the heart-healthy benefits of wine without the side effects--pleasant and unpleasant--of the alcohol it contains. Now, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Purple Passion | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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