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Mind Your Morals The article's title, "What Makes Us Moral," contains the basic mistake we make in trying to understand ourselves and our fellow human beings [Dec. 3]. Nothing makes us anything. We make choices, which then affect our brain chemistry. In trying to be scientific, we often reverse the relationship. While Jeffrey Kluger may value the choices we make, he did not use the word choices in his examination of morality. The connection we have with our community is a powerful factor in how we choose to behave, of course, and we do place others outside our community...
...dismissed the idea of a postelection coup as "stupid." Not just stupid, but perhaps unnecessary. A new security bill has been tabled before the junta-appointed National Legislative Assembly, which replaced the suspended parliament. If passed in its current form, the bill could grant the generals powers to deny basic civil rights. "The military see themselves as custodians of Thailand's political future," says Thitinan. "The security act is evidence of their intention to stay in politics for the long haul." This and other junta-proposed laws would "violate the people's rights," declared former senator Jon Ungphakorn...
...Medvedev. For the moment, there is rightly a sense of relief that Putin has not anointed yet another former member of the FSB to become President. The Russian stock exchange has applauded. The Russian Orthodox Patriarch has pitched in his blessing. Russian newspapers have exulted. Unfortunately, the basic reality of Russia's politics is likely to remain as unmeltable as Siberian permafrost...
...former Vice President Al Gore was accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, thousands of miles away. In his speech, Gore called for bold and immediate action from the negotiators in Bali, including a universal global cap on carbon emissions. "We must quickly mobilize our civilization," he said. "Something basic is wrong. We are wrong and we must make it right...
...game, Harvard knew that the Wildcats were going to be a tough defensive matchup. New Hampshire, which starts four guards, runs a lot of screens and shoots a lot of three-pointers. But the Crimson played tight defense and shut the Wildcats down. “Our defense basically won us the game,” Delaney-Smith said. “We worked hard and took them out of their screening sets.” After UNH scored the game’s first five points, Harvard went on an 11-0 run to take an 11-5 lead...