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Nighttime taxis remind me of certain piano music, Erik Satie or Gustav Holst. I wake up dreaming one particular taxi ride with the town as a mute firework, Holst’s Venus, plague masked clown tilting his stovepipe hat, and as a never-ending deserted road. The night is drawn toward the pallor of the dawn; drowning is not unforeseen. The bird that tweets welcome is the one that bids goodbye. What do I know? The poet lives chained to our basement. Elora may never go to a physical school, and yet we fill a box of tiffin for her with our thinning resources and pack a bag with books and notebooks, and pencils. She may never use a pencil, still, we sharpen their weapon-head as if our muscles follow a covert mission the agency has forgotten. What do I know? The poet lives in the basement and refuses to write what hurts him most. ....
E-Mail Researchers from University of Notre Dame, York University (Canada), and University of New England (Australia) published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that identifies a novel reason why people under-save and demonstrates a simple, short, and inexpensive intervention that increases intentions to save and actual savings. The study, forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing, is titled Popping the Positive Illusion of Financial Responsibility Can Increase Personal Savings: Applications in Emerging and Western Markets and is authored by Emily Garbinsky, Nicole Mead, and Daniel Gregg. People around the world are not saving enough money. Since increasing personal savings is critical for individual and societal welfare, many researchers have tried to identify reasons why people under-save. Most of these reasons, however, do not lend themselves to behavioral interventions. ....