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Confidence Game - A secret of the punditocracy and various opinionated blowhards has been revealed: outsized confidence. We're 100 percent sure of this! Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have demonstrated that people prefer to take advice from a confident source even if that source has a poor track record.
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Sleepily Ever After - New research presented at a sleep conference today concludes women who are married or in stable relationships get better sleep than their single sisters. (No word on whether their significant others are boring them to sleep.)
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Phantom Traffic Jams - Ever get through a long delay and wonder for the life of you what the holdup was? It might have been a "phantom traffic jam." They occur when someone drives too fast and then hit the brakes and researchers at MIT are figuring out how to prevent them.
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Funemployment - The recession has spawned a subculture of the formerly employed who are living it up now that they don't have professional responsibilities. Supported by severance packages, savings, unemployment checks or parents, the "funemployed" don't sweat their status. They enjoy it. Are they incurable optimists or people living in denial?
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Air Show - Bird researchers, armed with high-speed cameras, have discovered male hummingbirds reach speeds "faster than fighter jets" relative to their body size. Why do they fly so fast? To impress females, of course. The researchers used stuffed decoys of female birds to provoke the feathered need for speed. http://bit.ly/fxrzNClick here for the story.

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You can't squeeze more hours into the day but you can get more sleep into your lives. We stepped away from the Starbucks and put down the NoDoz to find out what's really going on when we close our eyes. And make sure you follow us on Twitter for faster, better, stronger Fast Draws: twitter.com/fastdraw

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A key part of the new financial bailout plan announced today involves buying up Billions of dollars in bad debt -- including debt from credit cards. It's all very complicated -- so let CBS' "Fast Draw" team, Mitch Butler and Josh Landis, explain.

When the economy slows down, people look for a pick-me-up. A stimulus check from the government can seem like money falling from the sky.

But what's better, giving money away or using it to build bridges, highways, schools, things like that?

Just watch our video to find out what we learned.

Exit polls are a valuable tool in helping to navigate who will win an election, but sometimes that might not be enough.

The Fast Draw team looks at how much energy hybrid cars really save. How do hybrids compare against used cars? Mitch Butler and Josh Landis find out.

As the price of crude oil keeps jumping, so has the amount of finger-pointing at factors in the seemingly relentless rise.

What's behind it? Have the law of supply and demand and other usual economic forces given way to speculators bidding up the price for personal gain?

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