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Charles Duhigg
American
Journalist
Born:
1974
Because
Drinking
Nation
People
Water
You
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For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.
Charles Duhigg
Our
Evidence
Habits
Aristotle
Unthinkingly
Supreme
Occur
Truest
Selves
Behaviors
Reigned
In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse on London's seafront popular among underwriters, men in powdered wigs with mathematical minds and steely constitutions who offered to compensate owners if their boats were lost at sea.
Charles Duhigg
Men
Lost
Wigs
Minds
London
Constitutions
Steely
Opened
Were
Mathematical
Edward
Offered
Owners
Boats
Sea
Who
Popular
Among
Compensate
Bank of America is the story of some of the most ambitious, aggressive bank builders on the face of the planet.
Charles Duhigg
Face
Aggressive
Some
Most
Builders
Ambitious
America
Bank
Story
Planet
The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.
Charles Duhigg
You
Plants
Power
Relatively
Mineral
Dirty
Power Plants
Over
Know
Left
Essentially
Burn
Coal
Waste
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
Charles Duhigg
Arabia
America
Coal
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.
Charles Duhigg
Time
Say
One Friend
Purchased
Federal
Attorneys
Most
Friend
Even
Code
Actually
Violates
Copying
Copyright
Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.
Charles Duhigg
Music
Listening
Value
First
Say
Pleasure
Some
About
Songs
Sharing
First Place
Because
Integral
Personal
Personal Expression
Place
Much
Expression
Why
Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.
Charles Duhigg
People
Voting
Out
Someone
Cast
Term
Calling
Ballot
Experts
Public
Prod
Most shoppers don't buy everything they need at one store.
Charles Duhigg
Buy
Everything
Most
Store
Need
The desire to collect information on customers is not new for Target or any other large retailer, of course. For decades, Target has collected vast amounts of data on every person who regularly walks into one of its stores.
Charles Duhigg
Walks
Every
Other
Collect
Collected
Data
Vast
New
Course
Target
Person
Decades
Any
Stores
Information
Customers
Regularly
Who
Large
Amount
Desire
Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.
Charles Duhigg
Family
Plumbing
Charles
Shack
Born
Period
Without
His
Providence
La
Lake
Electricity
Lived
Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.
Charles Duhigg
Politics
Group
Unions
Lobby
Only
Employee
Involved
Make
Executives
Campaign
Donations
Public
Fiercely
Businesses
Hardly
Lawmakers in both political parties have often acceded to unions' requests to avoid political confrontations or to curry favor. They have pushed difficult choices into the future.
Charles Duhigg
Future
Political
Unions
Difficult
Favor
Lawmakers
Both
Pushed
Parties
Political Parties
Often
Curry
Confrontation
Requests
Choices
Avoid
Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government workers receive generous pensions, they note.
Charles Duhigg
Government
Problems
Made
Politicians
Unions
Defense
Say
Responsible
Pensions
Myriad
Simplistic
Generous
Employee
Causes
Government Workers
Unfairly
Public
Note
Them
Workers
Receive
Union leaders argue that pension shortfalls account for a proportionally tiny portion of governments' financial problems, and by all accounts, there are plenty of parties to blame for the growth in payrolls and obligations.
Charles Duhigg
Obligations
Blame
Financial
Problems
Plenty
Pension
Argue
Leaders
Parties
Governments
Account
Accounts
Tiny
Union
Growth
Portion
Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks.
Charles Duhigg
Government
Risks
Water
Drinking
Other
Hundreds
Small
Drinking Water
Identified
Chemicals
Limits
Still
Scientists
Linked
Diseases
Serious
Pose
State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.
Charles Duhigg
Water
Old
Too
State
Sewer
Systems
Thousands
Indicate
Properly
Federal
Studies
May
Function
The Great Bailout is mostly over for the banks. But for those troubled behemoths of the nation's housing bust, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the lifeline from Washington just keeps getting longer.
Charles Duhigg
Great
Nation
Mac
Those
Lifeline
Troubled
Longer
Over
Bailout
Mostly
Housing
Getting
Just
Banks
Bust
Washington
Keeps
Some officials overseeing local water systems have tried to go above and beyond what is legally required. But they have encountered resistance, sometimes from the very residents they are trying to protect, who say that if their water is legal, it must be safe.
Charles Duhigg
Legal
Water
Sometimes
Local
Say
Systems
Must
Tried
Some
Above
Beyond
Safe
Protect
Go
Encountered
Overseeing
Very
Trying
Legally
Officials
Required
Who
Residents
Resistance
Drinking water that does not meet a federal health guideline will not necessarily make someone ill. Many contaminants are hazardous only if consumed for years. And some researchers argue that even toxic chemicals, when consumed at extremely low doses over long periods, pose few risks.
Charles Duhigg
Health
Risks
Water
Will
Long
Drinking
Few
Meet
Extremely
Some
Someone
Only
Drinking Water
Federal
Argue
Long Periods
Consumed
Hazardous
Over
Toxic
Periods
Make
Does
Chemicals
Years
Doses
Low
Ill
Researchers
Many
Even
Necessarily
Pose
The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 1974 after tests discovered carcinogens, lead and dangerous bacteria flowing from faucets in New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Boston and elsewhere.
Charles Duhigg
Water
Dangerous
Drinking
Elsewhere
Bacteria
Boston
Drinking Water
Lead
New
Safe
Passed
Discovered
Tests
New Orleans
Pittsburgh
After
Act
Orleans
Flowing
As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater.
Charles Duhigg
Nation
Neglected
Once
Projects
Cities
Rapidly
Absorb
Over
Green
Spaces
Infrastructure
Paved
Across
Many
Grown
For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.
Charles Duhigg
Water
Drinking
Risk
Drinking Water
Environment
Almost
Said
Years
Officials
Agency
Humans
It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination.
Charles Duhigg
Water
Cause
Drinking
Difficult
Drinking Water
Instance
Contamination
Particular
Like
Source
Tests
Pinpoint
Link
Disease
Often
Polluted
Pollution
Hard
Show
Even
Specific
Many cows are fed a high-protein diet, which creates a more liquid manure that is easier to spray on fields.
Charles Duhigg
Easier
More
Fed
Spray
Cows
Liquid
Diet
Which
Fields
Creates
Manure
Many
Stock exchanges say that more than half of all trades are now executed by just a handful of high-frequency traders, who use rapid-fire computers to essentially force slower investors to give up profits, then disappear before anyone knows what happened.
Charles Duhigg
Half
Before
Say
Slower
Give
More
Computers
Exchanges
Disappear
Investors
Executed
Force
Knows
Trades
Handful
Up
Stock
Than
Essentially
Just
Anyone
Happened
Then
Use
Who
Now
Profits
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