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...tuned in. As it turned out, audiences liked watching corn-fed young dudes cling to enraged animals for dear life. "People want to see a big bad som'bitch hoof the s___ out of somebody," says Jerry Nelson, a top bull owner. "They want to see a little blood and guts." They're usually not disappointed: 1 in 15 rides results in an injury to the rider. In 2000, one rider died in the ring...
...Buchanan's America With regard to what makes us fellow Americans, conservative politician and pundit Pat Buchanan asked, "Is it simply citizenship? Or is it blood, soil, history and heroes?" [Aug. 28]. Perhaps he should ask the families of fallen soldiers with names like Ram?rez, Fern?ndez and Garc?a. Many of those heroes came from cities with names like Los Angeles, El Paso and Santa Fe. Buchanan seems to think he is waging a culture war when in fact he is fighting history?American history. Alvaro Gonzalez Miami...
...Phipp, 30, was in a dark room at a South London medical center, lying inside a loudly whirring functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner that mapped her brain as video images flickered before her eyes. Brain scanners, which use radio waves and a powerful magnetic field to trace oxygenated blood to areas of neural activity, are used mainly to study or diagnose brain diseases. But Phipp's brain was being scrutinized by researchers to see how it reacted to the TV pictures--specifically, whether she responded to ads differently at night than in the morning...
...Christopher Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health, is that life-span discrepancies show up most in young and middle-aged adults, not kids or the elderly, who tend to be viewed as at higher risk and are due more to chronic ailments like heart disease and high blood pressure than to factors like homicide...
...faith he preached". The emperor, after having expressed himself so forcefully, goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable. Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul. "God", he says, "is not pleased by blood - and not acting reasonably... is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong...