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- Does Offering Smaller Portions At Restaurants Help People Eat Less?
Asking for less food isn't something most people think about when ordering from a menu. A new study suggests that asking people if they want less food and, in turn, fewer calories, before they order is key.
people who made a difference 10 Feb 2012 - Alibaba's wily Ma faces big Yahoo test
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - If anyone can pull off the labyrinthine deal between Alibaba Group and Yahoo Inc, it is Jack Ma, who founded the e-commerce group and within a decade unlocked China's huge online shopping potential. The former tour guide and English teacher, who is now worth around $1.6 billion according to Forbes and has dubbed himself 'China's Forrest Gump', built his e-commerce empire ...
people who made a difference 10 Feb 2012 - New Pentagon rules could put women closer to combat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon unveiled a new policy on Thursday that will expand job opportunities for women in the military but shift them closer to the fighting, rekindling the issue of women in combat. The move is part of a Pentagon effort to begin eliminating some of the gender-based discrimination that has prevented greater diversity in the overall force. It came in response to ...
people who made a difference 10 Feb 2012 - You're Mad About the Wrong Part of 'Doing God's Work with Other People's Money'
It's no surprise that 35 Republican members of Congress are mad that an atheist group got the Air Force to take out the "God" part in an agency's motto. What's shocking is the implication that they think bragging about "other people's money" is perfectly fine. The old motto "really calls into question the integrity of the agency itself," says Jason Torpy, the atheist and military veteran who got ...
people who made a difference 10 Feb 2012 - Mountain Maladies: Genetic Screening Susses Out Susceptibility to Altitude Sickness
Mountain Maladies: Genetic Screening Susses Out Susceptibility to Altitude Sickness
people who made a difference 10 Feb 2012 - Republican sportswriter says 'thanks' to 700-plus people who contributed to $50K fund-raiser for girl with rare form ...
Thank you. That thank you goes out to the 700-plus people who contributed to the Running for Celia fund-raiser we held in December, when I ran a 50K race in an attempt to raise $50,000 for a 7-year-old girl from Wilbraham who has a type of cancer which has no known cure.
people who made a difference 10 Feb 2012 - Study: Electric boost helps brain to learn better
Research may help Alzheimer's patients dealing with illness
people who made a difference 10 Feb 2012 - Celebrating ordinary Indians with extraordinary stories
The idea of the Mahindra Rise Amazing Indians, piloted by Times Now, brought out the story of countless unknown Indians who are writing the real story of India.
people who made a difference 10 Feb 2012 - A Proposal to Fix Online Identity
Facebook's social graph of you isn't you. It's an approximation and an extrapolation based on little clues you've left lying around the Web. Using your Facebook or Google identity gives those services more data points about what you do, but that doesn't mean it substitutes for whom you are. The central thing wrong with the social Web is that users don't own their identities. Users share ...
people who made a difference 10 Feb 2012 - Can You Pass a ?Beverly Hillbillies? Test?: Virginia Postrel
Charles Murray knows that people who read fat books of social criticism aren?t normal. They weren?t normal when the books had titles like ?The Affluent Society,? ?The Hidden Persuaders? and ?The Organization Man,? and they aren?t normal today.
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