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...fearsome must the headlines be about tomorrow before people change their ways today?" Gibbs asked. Our brains are hardwired to respond to immediate dangers, not ones that are years or decades away. A term like global warming is too benign, especially for those like me who live in a cold climate and might welcome an increase of a few degrees. Perhaps we should use the term global boiling, like the proverbial experiment in which a frog stays in a gradually warming pot of water and eventually dies. Maybe we all need to visualize the destruction to make us feel...
...allegations in this case," she says. "Not doing so would represent a potential abuse of prosecutorial discretion." The key, she adds, is whether prosecutors chose not to pursue evidence of criminal activity by Republicans because of political bias or a conflict of interest. Sometimes prosecutors have a more benign motive; they may simply verify that allegations are untrue or be unclear on how to categorize the offense or the relevant statute of limitations. Certainly in Young's statements about Sessions and Pryor, he did not allege a quid pro quo for his money laundering of their campaigns. And whatever...
...little chance U.S. officials will respond to the dollar's decline any time soon. David Naudé, euro-zone economist for Deutsche Bank in Paris, says there's absolutely no sign American authorities are ready to forsake the short-term trade benefits of what he calls "the policy of benign ignorance" toward the dollar...
...headlines be about tomorrow before people change their ways today?" Gibbs asked. Psychologically speaking, people need to worry more about the present to change. Our brains are hardwired to respond to immediate dangers, not ones that are years or decades away. And a term like global warming is too benign, especially for those like me who live in a cold climate and might welcome an increase of a few degrees. Perhaps we should use the term global boiling, like the proverbial experiment in which a frog stays in a gradually warming pot of water and eventually dies...
Everyone is slightly touched--moved and deranged--by the force of love in this sweet, knowing film from director Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer). Morgan Freeman presides as a kind of benign deity observing these moonstruck creatures, especially a coffee-shop owner (Greg Kinnear) with a soft heart and rotten luck with beautiful women. Sexy, funny, sad and defiantly romantic, Feast of Love is the rare movie to cuddle...