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...good thing. Mark Lepper, a psychology professor at Stanford, and Sheena Iyengar, an associate professor of management at Columbia, illustrated this point with a simple study. In a grocery store, they set up tasting booths that offered either six or 24 types of jam. Shoppers found the wider selection more enticing: 60% who passed it stopped and tasted, while only 40% stopped at the booth with fewer flavors. Yet the wider selection was confounding; just 3% who sampled there bought anything, while 30% made a purchase at the other booth...
...point. Senate Democrats will have to make the most of their nominal moral advantage of having been out of power until very recently, because the longer the investigations into Enron, Andersen and supposed supervillain Lay go on, the wider the conclusions are likely to spread the guilt. For all the scolding of Enron's accounting, of its retirement plan, of its executive perks and funny habit of not paying much in the way of taxes the past five years, an early glance suggests that congressional investigators will find an awful lot of it to be perfectly legal...
...market. But it is still poorer than the other two major ethnic groups, Chinese and Indians, and tops the list of the government's carefully compiled stats on divorce rates and drug addiction. The gap in society might be larger than people realize?and could yawn even wider if the Malay community as a whole is blamed for its extremists. "This will be a test of the strength of the fabric of our society," is the stark assessment of Singapore's National Development Minister, Mah Bow Tan. The 13 men might have been nabbed before they could...
...party delegates that are required to gain a place on the Democratic primary ballot. Many of these delegates will be chosen in local party caucuses on Feb. 2. We urge those caucuses to put Reich on the ballot this fall, so that Massachusetts voters will enjoy a wider array of possible choices...
...wider political context in the southern Philippines may pose problems. The MNLF, of course, is today the ruling party in Basilian, and five other regions that have joined the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao since the peace agreement of 1996. This week's firefight between police and soldiers appears related to a faction fight between rival factions of the MNLF - the imprisoned Misauri had launched his rebellion only after being voted out of office by his own party, and his support-base remains limited...