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  Study Finds Incentive Price for Reducing HIV Risk in Mexico

  February 4, 2013 — With a goal to reduce HIV risk behaviors, researchers investigated whether gay men and male sex workers in Mexico City would participate in a conditional cash transfer program that encourages HIV ... > full story
• Energy Issues
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  Hydro Beats Nuclear and Coal, Beats Oil and Gas, Review Finds

  February 4, 2013 — Researchers in Italy and the UK have reviewed the economic, social and environmental impact of hydro, coal, oil, gas and nuclear power. Each has its advantages and disadvantages, but of these ... > full story
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  Policy, Enforcement May Stop Employees from Wasting Time Online at Work

  January 31, 2013 — Researchers studied cyberloafing -- wasting time at work on the Internet -- and the effects of Internet use policies and punishment on reducing ... > full story
• Dieting and Weight Control
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  Outdoor Fast Food Ads Could Promote Obesity

  January 31, 2013 — A new study suggests that the more outdoor advertisements promoting fast food and soft drinks there are in a given census tract, the higher the likelihood that the area's residents are ... > full story
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  Rude Behavior at Work Is Increasing and Affects the Bottom Line

  January 30, 2013 — Research shows rudeness at work is rampant, and it’s on the rise. In 2011, half of the workers surveyed said they were treated rudely at least once a week - up from a quarter in 1998. New ... > full story
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  New Model to Determine Lifetime Spending

  January 30, 2013 — New research shows new, more effective ways to plan for ... > full story
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  Emission Trading Schemes Limit Green Consumerism

  January 30, 2013 — Schemes that aim to regulate greenhouse gas emissions can limit consumers’ attempts to reduce their carbon ... > full story
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  Professional Training 'in the Wild' Overrides Laboratory Decision Preferences

  January 29, 2013 — Many simulation-based studies have been conducted, and theories developed, about the behaviors of financial market traders. New work suggests that decision-making research on the behavior of traders ... > full story
• Diabetes
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  When Food 'Porn' Holds No Allure: The Science Behind Satiety

  January 28, 2013 — New research is shedding light on why enticing pictures of food affect us less when we're ... > full story
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  Penicillin, Not the Pill, May Have Launched the Sexual Revolution

  January 28, 2013 — The rise in risky, non-traditional sexual relations that marked the swinging '60s and advent of readily available contraception actually began as much as a decade earlier, during the conformist '50s, ... > full story

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