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...intends to reap big savings from the state budget by eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse" through the introduction of more technology to the statehouse. Then that "spine of steel" comes up again. "If you have a huge need to be liked, if you have a huge need to be popular, I think in the near term this is a very bad job for you," she says...
...popular belief that testosterone contributes to aggressive behavior in humans may be just that - a belief - according to a new study in the journal Nature. The paper suggests that the hormone may in fact lead to fair, and more altruistic, behavior in some situations, causing aggression only when people believe they are under its influence...
...church attendance has long been associated with high levels of religious commitment, but more than one-quarter (28%) of those who attend services at least once a week told the Pew researchers that they visit other houses of worship at least occasionally. This crossing of traditions is even more popular among monthly churchgoers - 40% of them report attending other faith services...
Chileans have had macabre reminders this month about how vicious the country's political right once was. Last week saw the reburial ceremony for Victor Jara, a popular 20th century Chilean folksinger. His remains were exhumed recently to help determine just how he was killed in 1973, after he had been arrested by the brutal right-wing dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who ruled from 1973 to 1990. (An autopsy revealed that Jara was tormented in a game of Russian roulette and then executed by machine-gun fire.) This week, a Chilean judge ruled that former President Eduardo Frei Montalva...
...doubtful that even those morbid revelations can turn enough voters back to Chile's center-left coalition, the Concertación. President Michelle Bachelet, a moderate socialist and Chile's first female head of state, remains hugely popular; but Frei Ruiz, 67, hasn't been able to exploit her cachet and has instead come to symbolize the Concertación's staleness after two decades in power, especially as the global recession slows Latin America's most envied economy. Frei Ruiz's problems have been highlighted by the remarkable rise of a third candidate, Marco Enríquez-Ominami - born...