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Repast (n.)
A meal, or the things eaten at a meal. A feast. A banquet. Food. (In the time you took to eat this, I ate my repast and started on yours.)
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Having lots of money is bad for you
Michael Lewis reviews a book about "Billionaires," which finds that having extreme wealth changes the way you interact with people.
In one study, Keltner and his colleague Paul Piff installed note-takers and cameras at city street intersections with four-way stop signs. The people driving expensive cars were four times more likely to cut in front of other drivers than drivers of cheap cars. The researchers then followed the drivers to the city's cross walks and positioned themselves as pedestrians, waiting to cross the street. The drivers in the cheap cars all respected the pedestrians' right of way. The drivers in the expensive cars ignored the pedestrians 46.2 percent of the time -- a finding that was replicated in spirit by another team of researchers in Manhattan, who found drivers of expensive cars were far more likely to double park.
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