Among the standouts: a dark, brooding Corinth self-portrait drawing and a charming, light-struck August Macke of an Arab on a donkey.

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But she's taken care to bring along a small Peter Beard photograph with a wooden frame that sits on a shelf and a Francis Bacon self-portrait drawing that's hanging in the living room.

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Behaviorists reject the classic economic theory of human beings as ultra-rational self-interested actors and, drawing on psychology, examine the causes of seemingly irrational economic choices, such as not taking advantage of money offered in an employer-provided retirement plan or giving away more money to charity than can be explained by purely selfish motives.

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At first he confined himself to drawing, but when he was 17 had a self-portrait accepted for reproduction in the magazine, Horizon.

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On a finer scale, self-organising maps can show how particular individuals use a given file of data, such as an engineering drawing, during the course of a project.

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Drawing from sources as disparate as Black Sabbath, the indie-instrumentalists in Tortoise and the self-flagellating noise-masters in Swans, Pelican makes instrumental hard rock that whispers as much as it shouts, and teases as much as it pummels.

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