Now, we've offered this carrot, as I say, we've dangled the carrot.

Eggplant, carrot, tomato.

It's not the beta carotene, it's the carrot.

The offspring of the carrot juice drinking women ate more carrot flavored cereal, and from the looks of it, they seemed to enjoy it more.

Have a stick? Well why not have a carrot?

There's not a strawberry tree or a carrot bush.

His menu that day was more humble deviled eggs in tomato sauce, mashed potatoes and, for dessert, prune pudding.

Autonomy, mastery and purpose, versus carrot and sticks. And who wins?

And the 80 percent zone is a no carrot and no stick zone.

So we take a carrot cake, put it in a blender, and we have kind of like a carrot cake juice, and then that went into a balloon frozen in liquid nitrogen to create this hollow shell of carrot cake ice cream, I guess, and it comes off looking like, you know, Jupiter's floating around your plate.

And we could even do an X Prize style golden carrot that's worth stretching further for.

And in cheesecake and all kinds of desserts, like chocolate mousse, tiramisu, vanilla pudding, everything that's cooled in the supermarket, there's gelatin to make it look good.

I submit that the intelligence of a lancet fluke is down there somewhere between petunia and carrot.

And then there is this other really interesting movement that's happened in California, which is about carrot mobs.

Many of us grew up never eating a fresh vegetable except the occasional raw carrot or maybe an odd lettuce salad.

For example, Dan Pink's talk on motivation, which was pretty good if you haven't seen it Drop carrot. Drop stick. Bring meaning.

Six months later, the women's infants were offered cereal mixed with carrot juice, and their facial expressions were observed while they ate it.

We decided to do something a little bit different and transform flavors that were very familiar so in this case, we have carrot cake.

You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity.

Zadar's famous sunset is perfectly timed between main course and pudding, and after dark we return to the sea organ and watch the play of wave powered lights in a glass pavement a dance floor, in fact.

South Korea s Sunshine Policy is best understood as unconditional engagement. Not surprisingly, this all carrot, no stick approach has failed to affect North Korean behavior.

All the proof from America is that actually, if you pay people to recycle, if you give them a carrot rather than a stick, you can transform their behavior.

Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a costly investment in your health.

And the genes it turns on includes antioxidant genes, genes I call carrot giver genes, whose protein products actually help other proteins to function well to fold correctly and function correctly.

In one experiment, a group of pregnant women was asked to drink a lot of carrot juice during their third trimester of pregnancy, while another group of pregnant women drank only water.

The Government had fought a lone battle against the group, calling in vain for dialogue, and had been obliged to have recourse to a carrot and stick policy, using both strength and diplomacy.

Now, let me tell you, The James Randi Educational Foundation is waving this very big carrot, but I must say, the fact that nobody has taken us up on this offer doesn't mean that the powers don't exist.

Second, ensure integration rather than merely coordination of economic factors into the political and security agenda. This would entail using reintegration and other economic programs as a carrot to support the negotiations, and would also support peace and stability in the long run.

And if we really want to get out of this economic mess, and if we really want high performance on those definitional tasks of the 21st century, the solution is not to do more of the wrong things, to entice people with a sweeter carrot, or threaten them with a sharper stick.

Russia also needs a national security strategy to complement its political and economic renewal. All stick and little carrot has failed to quell Chechen nationalism, and President Vladimir Putin s similarly heavy handed attempts to control Russia s so called near abroad as in Ukraine during the Orange Revolution have proven no more successful.

Under the banner of a Eurasian Union, and relying on the renationalized oil and gas sectors as both a carrot and a stick, the Kremlin wants to tie as many of the former Soviet territories as possible to the Motherland. At the center of this policy is Ukraine, the linchpin of Europe s post Soviet order.

The other scenario is when the two sides have already engaged in bilateral peace talks, paid the domestic political price, and reached agreement on most issues, though some matters remain unresolved and threaten to derail the process. In such cases, America can step in and, by using both carrot and stick, make both sides go the extra mile.

Their misgivings have been strengthened by the Peace Process Roadmap to 2015, a document prepared by the Karzai constituted Afghan High Peace Council that sketches several potential concessions to the Taliban and Pakistan, ranging from the Taliban s recognition as a political party to a role for Pakistan in Afghanistan s internal affairs. The roadmap even dangles the carrot of cabinet posts and provincial governorships to prominent Taliban figures.

Although the Party s carrot and stick approach has worked since 1989, it is doubtful that it will retain its efficacy for another 17 years. To the extent that China s authoritarian regime is by nature exclusionary (it can only incorporate a limited number of elites), the co optation strategy will soon run up against its limits, and the Party will no longer have the resources to buy off the intelligentsia or keep private entrepreneurs happy.