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Thursday May 9 | Seeking Alpha

Focusing On America May Be A Way To Beat The S&P 500

Summary: Over the past two years, investors have been favoring stocks that make their money inside the USA.

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Thu Apr 25, 2013

The Nation

Fat-Shaming All Around Us

Earlier this week I blogged here about the thinspiration community - which encourages anorexic and bulimic behaviors and insists that eating disorders are not mental illnesses and admirable "lifestyle choices" - and its use of Twitter to share tips on how to be "better" at your eating disorder.

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Thu Apr 18, 2013

CiteULike

A Model of Focusing in Economic Choice*

We present a generally applicable theory of focusing based on the hypothesis that a person focuses more on, and hence overweights, attributes in which her options differ more.

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