Okay, I'm being puckish -- anyone in business knows that customers constantly argue for a better deal. But in at least some contexts, like buying wine, people feel better about what they buy if it costs more. That's the gist of what's called the price-placebo effect, reported...
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued a flier to combat myths about the flu vaccine. It recited various commonly held views and labeled them either "true" or "false." Among those identified as false were statements such as "The side effects are worse than the flu" and...
WASHINGTON -- For more than two centuries, explorers, travelers and researchers have tracked the disturbing phenomenon of individuals who act out their rage against the world in an abrupt burst of homicide against total strangers. Invariably, the violence ends with the person getting killed or taking his own life. ...
WASHINGTON -- Three new planets have been discovered in other solar systems and are the closest ever found to Earth in size, marking an important step in the search for planets that could support life elsewhere in the universe, scientists have announced. The new planets are...
An ear tag on a slaughtered Washington state Holstein cow found to be infected with mad cow disease shows the animal came from Alberta, Canada, where another case of mad cow disease was discovered in May, government officials said Saturday. The breakthrough could turn what was...
A Washington state Holstein cow found infected with mad cow disease may have brought in the disease from outside the state, even outside the country, a top U.S. official and a veterinarian familiar with the investigation said Thursday. In tracking records from the Sunny Dene Ranch...
WASHINGTON -- Federal officials announced the recall Wednesday of more than 10,000 pounds of meat that passed through a Washington state slaughterhouse on the same day as a Holstein cow infected with mad cow disease. Fearing that contaminated beef could pose a threat to their food...
WASHINGTON -- The first medicine effective against symptoms of moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease won approval Friday from the government and could be on the market by January for the more than 2 million Americans battling advanced stages of the debilitating illness. The new medicine, memantine, works...
A fierce debate about whether jealousy, lust and sexual attraction are hardwired in the brain or are the products of culture and upbringing has recently been ignited by the growing influence of a school of psychology that sees the hidden hand of evolution in everyday life. ...
Critics accuse secular humanists of reductionism, of assuming too hastily that mundane physical explanations explain away the need for mystery Yet a sufficiently powerful explanation will explain some mysteries away. For example, once one truly understands the idea of living on a rotating...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 10 -- BETHESDA, MD -- In the wake of the nation's first gene-therapy death, a government watchdog group yesterday suggested far-reaching changes in the burgeoning but as yet unproven field. The recommendations, following two days...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 22 -- It's barely 2:30 p.m., and traffic leaving the city on the Schuylkill Expressway at 30th Street has slowed to a crawl. Strategically looming over frustrated motorists has long been a picture of serene...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 14--As rumors fly about the fate of Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation's nine area hospitals, the system's 18,000 employees have a daily challenge: working. Reminded by each day's headlines or cafeteria gossip of the system's economic instability,...
WASHINGTON--Apr. 4--Secret documents from the Liggett tobacco company reveal that executives wrestled at least two decades ago with the moral question of making cigarettes less harmful at the cost of more widespread addiction to tobacco. A 1978 document concluded: "The...
PHILADELPHIA--Jun. 5--Joseph Kohn's conference table at his law office on Market Street is a long way from the oil wells of Ecuador. The polished, brown table and the South American jungle have been getting to know each other, though, as Kohn piles on documents about a...
Articles 1994-06-03
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