Shoppers are likely to abandon a line that might take between one and 10 minutes to get through after the first two or three minutes if they feel it isn't moving sufficiently fast enough for them, says Narayan Janakiraman, an assistant professor of marketing at Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona.

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The bottom line, though, is that people shouldn't blame their allergies for deeper emotional issues, says Dr. Michael Silverman, assistant professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

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"Currently, there are no approved therapies in regenerative medicine for heart failure, " said Karen Christman, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, who wasn't involved in the latest experiments.

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"Applying for financial assistance is also a complicated business, and brokers don't have a lot of experience with that, " said Tricia Brooks, a research assistant professor at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.

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"There was physical appeal to him you didn't generally get in traditional representations of Asian men, " says Minh-Ha Pham, an assistant professor of Asian-American studies at Cornell University.

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