Word: wallet
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...diners really ready to swap their foie gras for eco-ethics? "Everything comes with a price," says Potts Dawson, who wants to lead by example. "Consumption is at a level now where restaurants need to stand up and be counted." Sure, ethical dining might leave a dent in your wallet, but it could ease the burden on your conscience. www.waterhouserestaurant.co.uk
...what if instead of running your car on gasoline, you could run it on pure electricity? Not only would that help the environment - one-third of U.S. carbon emissions come from cars and trucks - but in an era of ever-increasing gas prices, it would help your wallet as well. Unfortunately, the auto industry has consistently failed to build and sell a truly marketable electric car. They were either too expensive or too weak on the road - or too often both; and back in those halcyon days when our chief climate fear was a new ice age, low gas prices...
...particular two amazing researchers: George Loewenstein, and Drazen Prelec) has rather convincingly shown that money given in different forms can have fundamentally different effects. For example, imagine that you have just finished a delicious dinner for two and it is time to pay the $100 bill. You open your wallet and are faced with your options: cash or credit? The reality is that no matter which option you choose, you will pay the same amount. But paying with a credit card feels very different than paying with cash—it is somewhat less painful...
Zhang Qi still had $50 in his wallet when he died. Besides that, not much is known about him. His body lies under a sheet on a sidewalk in Dujiangyan, a city of 600,000 that was badly damaged by the May 12 earthquake that devastated parts of Sichuan province and reverberated across China. Residents of the town step around Zhang's corpse, watching idly as a backhoe moves rubble from a collapsed apartment building across the street. At the other corner of the block paramilitary soldiers in green uniforms climb over another flattened building, removing debris and searching...
...Zhang's family is nowhere to be found. Zhao Hongpin, a volunteer from the nearby provincial capital of Chengdu, is desperately trying to locate anyone who knew the dead man. He walks through the crowd gathered on the sidewalk, flashing identification cards from the deceased's wallet to anyone who will look at them. But none will claim him. "If I leave his wallet here, what do you think will happen?" says Zhao. "There are people from the local government around, but they're somewhere else right now. Everyone is overwhelmed...