Word: blame
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...hard to get a teenager off the couch and working on that all important college essay? You might blame it on their immature nucleus accumbens, a region in the frontal cortex that directs motivation to seek rewards. James Bjork at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has been using fMRI to study motivation in a challenging gambling game. He found that teenagers have less activity in this region than adults do. "If adolescents have a motivational deficit, it may mean that they are prone to engaging in behaviors that have either a really high excitement factor...
...announcement came Friday morning as Democrats turned up the heat on McCain on cable television, blaming him for throwing a wrench into the talks after a deal - at least between Senators and House Democrats - was largely completed yesterday afternoon. That deal quickly unraveled late yesterday afternoon at an emergency gathering of congressional leaders, McCain and Barack Obama at the White House, where House Republicans voiced their strong opposition to the bailout. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seemed to put much of the blame on McCain in a press conference this morning, when he said that the deal's outlines were...
...friend, share a carpool or be a drinking buddy. I want my President to be qualified to lead the greatest nation on the planet. I want my President to bring all Americans back to playing on the same team, because I'm tired of the divisive anger and blame. We have a President now who seemed like one of us--and where has it gotten us? L. Bonomi, PALO ALTO, CALIF...
...fill they’ve ever written. Such is the relentlessness of Metallica’s self-criticism. At the end of “The Unforgiven III,” Hetfield asks, “How can I be lost? In remembrance I relive / So how can I blame you, when it’s me I can’t forgive?” —Reviewer Kyle L. K. McAuley can be reached at kmcauley@fas.harvard.edu...
...Politics is partly to blame. U.S. laws state that the $1.5 billion or so in food donated yearly by the United States - the world's biggest food donor - must be grown by American farmers and shipped on U.S.-flagged vessels, despite costing billions of dollars. "Congress has been very protectionist about its food-aid program," says Gawain Kripke, policy director of Oxfam America, which has pushed hard for changes in the U.S. laws. "The U.S. is a massive contributor of food aid, but a very inefficient...