Had Knox been a plain-looking, middle-aged mouse, I doubt Oggi would have cared much.
The resumes either included a photo of an attractive man or woman, a photo of a plain-looking man or woman, or no photo at all.
After ranking as high as 113th on Media Metrix's ranking of the 158 most visited business and financial sites, the plain-looking Business.com, whose revenues depend entirely on ads, has since tumbled off the list.
Female candidates who did not include a picture were most likely to receive a call from the employer, with a response rate 22% higher than plain-looking women and an incredible 30% higher than the attractive women.
At a frenetic factory outside the village of Ringaskiddy, Ireland, workers have spent the past year laboring in 12-hour shifts around the clock, seven days a week, turning out 10 tonnes of a plain-looking white powder with extraordinary qualities.
The "hotties" security site HotCaptcha.com, for example, blends plain and exceptionally good-looking people from the Web site "Hot or Not" with a spam-defying secure password box--pick the good-looking people (something computers can't yet do) and you prove you're a person, not a spam software program.
On February 4th Mr Diallo, a young Guinean with no criminal record, was challenged outside his apartment building by four plain-clothes police officers, looking for a rape suspect.
Reshma Shetty thinks an empty-looking circle on a plain piece of paper could change the world.
Looking to diversify away from plain-vanilla stocks and bonds?
This idea is supported by earlier brain-scanning studies which showed that looking at beautiful women, but not plain ones, arouses a man's nucleus acumbens, the part of the brain that evaluates rewards.
Looking back at ya is a front-facing camera, and there's a plain plastic stylus tucked in the top, so we're certainly looking at a resistive touch display.
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