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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (11245)	9/1/2004 9:30:43 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

August 31, 2004 But Sweetie, You Love Lima Beans By BENEDICT CAREY f only that very first bite of asparagus had inspired delight, and the first taste of jelly doughnut caused a stomachache. If children's happiest food memories were baked and not fried, leafy green rather than beefy, think of the difference in what people might eat. Now, think of what it might mean to change those memories - as an adult. Psychologists in California and Washington were studying false memories when they stumbled on a surprisingly easy target for manipulation: foods. In a study accepted for publication in the journal Social Cognition, the researchers describe how they fooled college students into thinking that as children they had become sick when eating certain foods. The students answered questions about their early eating memories. A week later, they were presented with a bogus food history profile that embedded a single falsehood - that they had gotten sick when eating pickles or hard-boiled eggs - among real memories. "This is called the false feedback technique, where you gather data from the subjects and use it to lend credibility to this false profile," said Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist at the University of California at Irvine who led the research. But about 40 percent of the 336 participants confirmed in later interviews that they remembered getting sick or believed it to be true. Compared with a control group, the believers said on questionnaires that they would be much more likely to avoid eating pickles or hard-boiled eggs if offered them at a party. In another study, just completed, the researchers found that people who were told that they loved asparagus as children were much more drawn to that slender delicacy than those whose memories were left alone. Proust's reflections on tea and cookies notwithstanding, the earliest experience of taste is as open to tampering as other memories, Dr. Loftus said. If these revisions became permanent, they might affect how and what people eat. "What we'd like to do now," Dr. Loftus said, "is take the students out for a real picnic and see what happens." Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company \| Home \| Privacy Policy \| Search \| Corrections \| RSS \| Help \| Back to Top

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (11245)	9/1/2004 10:00:06 AM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 116555

Mortgage applications activity off 0.6% last week Wednesday, September 1, 2004 11:15:35 AM WASHINGTON (AFX) -- The Mortgage Bankers Association's benchmark for measuring the level of activity for mortgage loans applications fell 0.6 percent in the week ended Aug. 27 compared to last year. Also on a seasonally adjusted basis, purchase applications eased 0.1 percent on the week, and refinancings decreased by 1.1 percent. Refinancings accounted for 40.7 percent of last week's total applications, up from 40.4 percent a week earlier, while adjustable-rate mortgages rose to 33.1 percent from 32.1 percent, according to the MBA. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages was 5.75 percent last week, down from 5.78 percent in the Aug. 20 week, with 15-year fixed-rate mortgages slipping to 5.11 percent from 5.13 percent and one-year ARMs declining to 3.79 percent from 3.90 percent.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (11245)	9/1/2004 10:02:12 AM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

EU to discuss possible trade sanctions vs US ´over the coming days´ Wednesday, September 1, 2004 10:46:33 AM EU to discuss possible trade sanctions vs US 'over the coming days' BRUSSELS (AFX) - The European Commission said EU member states will discuss the possibility of imposing trade sanctions against the US in retaliation to illegal American anti-dumping rules known as the Byrd Amendment "This is something we are going to be discussing with member states over the coming days," commission spokeswoman Arancha Gonzalez said Gonzalez said the EU's aim was to see the US legislation repealed Yesterday, a WTO arbitration panel said the EU, Brazil, Canada, Chile, India, Japan, Mexico and South Korea could impose hundreds of millions of dollars of sanctions against certain US imports The amendment allows the US government to distribute proceeds from anti-dumping tariffs on steel and other products to US firms that complain of damage from foreign imports