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How you spend affects how much you spend: Non-cash purchases found to be higher than cash buys
Sep 07, 2008 |
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There is fresh evidence that people spend less when paying cash than using credit, cash-equivalent scrip or gift certificates. They also spend less when they have to estimate expenses in detail. These findings appear in the ...
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Stocking stuffer: Card good for eye, dental visit
Dec 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Health care providers are rolling out a different sort of stocking stuffer: Gift cards that can be used to pay bills and insurance premiums or for specific services at eye doctors and dentist offices.
The Thought Is What Counts
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Holiday gift givers who expect to be appreciated for choosing the most expensive gifts are likely to be disappointed when their presents are unwrapped. Cost has little impact on how much we value the gifts we receive, according ...
First Jesus-era house discovered in Nazareth
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Just in time for Christmas, archaeologists on Monday unveiled what may have been the home of one of Jesus' childhood neighbors. The humble dwelling is the first dating to the era of Jesus to be discovered ...
Year's Best Gift Could Be A Job From Santa
Dec 17, 2009 |
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In this year's myriad discussions of stimulus and jobs programs, no one has yet publicly raised the idea to ask Santa Claus to take Christmas Eve off. Outsourcing his job by asking mere mortals to deliver ...
Racing, shooting and zapping your way to better visual skills
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Do your kids want a Wii, a PlayStation or an Xbox 360 this year? This holiday gift season is packed with popular gaming systems and adrenaline-pumping, sharpshooting games. What's a parent to do? Is there any redeeming value ...
Gadgets: Great gadgets, as a gift or not
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Officially this is not another gift guide. Instead I'd rather consider it the first of two roundups either of products I just haven't gotten to this year or some I have just couldn't find a home for.
Web site runs elaborate Secret Santa gift exchange
Dec 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- 'Tis the season for heart-melting tales of spontaneous good will among strangers, which, like the rest of our relationships, has gotten a lot more convenient since the advent of the Internet.
New Automated Technique with Online Verification Eases Network Analyzer Calibration
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Verifying the accuracy of network analyzers—instruments that are used to measure key performance characteristics of electronic networks—was once an awkward process involving multiple steps and pieces of equipment.
Parents encouraged to avoid purchasing lottery tickets as gifts for minors
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the flurry of activity before the holidays, some well-meaning family members consider buying lottery tickets and scratch cards as affordable, colourful, and potentially promising gift options for the children ...
People who 'see' numbers have better memories for dates
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research project has shown that people who perceive numbers visually, and who see sequences of numbers as visual patterns, have better memories for dates and events in the past than ...
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