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There are reasons to conclude that romance as well was shaped by the unsentimental hand of evolution. We humans don't have a monopoly on oxytocin and other molecules linked to feeling in love. Love may switch on reward pathways in our brains, but other animals have similar--if simpler--reward pathways...
...during the 1980s and '90s. Actors impersonating leaders past and present blamed the 1997 financial crisis, before appealing to the live audience and viewers at home for more funding to help prepare Indonesian athletes. One of the show's most popular characters, impersonating former President Suharto, had a simpler solution: "Just return me to power...
...unmatched gravitas, it entertains. Guided by the sure hand of Rob Reiner, director of classics including “When Harry Met Sally” and “The Princess Bride,” the viewer can leave the theater a little more grateful for the simpler things. Edward Cole, played by Jack Nicholson, and Carter Chambers, played by Morgan Freeman, meet in a same hospital room where their very divergent lives are thrown into sharp relief. Cole, a billionaire who just happens to own the hospital, is a man who lives by breaking the rules—always...
...most opaque and even byzantine ordeals in a young student’s life. Unsurprisingly, many high school students and their parents become confused and frustrated by it—it’s understandable that they are looking for some kind of shortcut to make their choices simpler. If only there were some simple, reliable resource that could accurately determine with absolute certitude which schools are worth applying to, and which aren’t.Enter U.S. News and World Report’s College Rankings, the magazine’s cash cow. U.S. News has perfectly capitalized...
What sort of alienation drives this resolve? When, at the age of 2, Barack Obama was abandoned by his African father, he lost both a father and accessibility to a black identity--not necessarily a politicized identity but that much simpler and more profound feeling of unselfconsciously belonging to a people. Here was a kid, accountable in the world as a black, being raised by whites--mother, grandmother, and grandfather. Nothing in the world wrong with this. In fact, the fine young man that Obama became has to be credited in large part to the devotion of his extraordinary mother...