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There's no telling whether it works - products like these aren't classified as drugs, so they aren't evaluated by the FDA - but, at least in theory, it ought to make love, lust or trust bloom a little faster. That's not unlike the drug ecstasy, which triggers the release of serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin in the brain and heightens users' feelings of trust and intimacy, even among complete strangers. Concerns that oxytocin might be similarly abused as a recreational drug seem unfounded, however, given that the hormone doesn't produce a high, says zoologist Sue Carter...
...wants to talk about running mates. Tomorrow's trivia questions are the titans of today - Midwestern governors, swing-state Senators, retired generals. Recent history says the winners will be announced days or even weeks before the conventions in late August. But what's the hurry? At least one party ought to revive tradition by dropping the bombshell while the delegates are gathered...
Journalism Giant Tim Russert, a perfectly authentic human being, ought to be your Person of the Year [June 30]. The Rev. Stanton D. Tate, MERIDIAN, IDAHO...
...problem--where to find enough sheriffs? Why not draft them from among the Christian missionaries spreading the malady of Western civilization in China? (Missionaries were a favorite target for Twain.) In China, he told his readers, "almost every convert runs a risk of catching our civilization ... We ought to think twice before we encourage a risk like that; for, once civilized, China can never be uncivilized again ... O compassionate missionary, leave China! come home and convert these Christians...
...free fall and its people increasingly dependent on food aid? Not too much, it seemed on Friday, when U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking at the G8 foreign ministers conclave in Kyoto, vowed to bring the matter up at the U.N. Security Council. No decisive action ought to be expected from that forum, in which China has long shown itself willing to wield its veto to prevent economic sanctions against its African trading partners (of which Zimbabwe is one). Statements of outrage from European governments were scarcely more specific, although British officials said they planned to expand the number...