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BUGS BUNNY DOESN'T BELONG IN Disneyland, so why do people recall meeting the Warner Brothers icon during childhood trips to the theme park? Because of the power of suggestion. By merely reading advertisements that mimic personal experience, we may unconsciously change or augment our mental autobiography. "We could all be unwitting subjects in some sort of mass suggestibility experiment," says University of Washington researcher Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D., "just by being exposed...