It works by allowing him to view only the rubber hand while both it and his real hand are stroked in synchronicity with one another.

ECONOMIST: Consciousness

In other words they're giving with one hand and taking with another - I don't think that's going to be the thing that gets our economy moving.

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With a more accurate picture of whether dud loans to one country or industry should go hand-in-hand with dud loans to another, banks should be able to spread their lending risks more wisely.

ECONOMIST: Discredited

On the other side of the room, one student can be seen interacting with another student at a nearby table while holding a sandwich in one hand and a drink in the other.

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Or maybe, she thought as she stood in the kitchen, opening and closing the dumbwaiter door with one hand, the necessary act of sacrificing one phone for another could be read as a veiled enactment of the sort of ambivalence required for alternating between lovers in the first place.

NEWYORKER: Another Manhattan