Word: bonding
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...tormentors? Psychologists say it would be almost abnormal if she did not. "If you're in a situation where someone threatens your life and you can tell they're deliberating and they decide not to kill you, you're very gracious, and you start to form this bond," says Mark Zelig, a forensic psychologist in Salt Lake City...
Meanwhile, with bond yields so low and bond prices likely to fall as rates rise, it's time to dump long-term bonds and bond funds. And get rid of any money-market holdings in your 401(k) and IRA accounts in favor of safe investments that pay higher yields...
...start with mortgages. The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond has been falling all year and last week hit a 44year low of 3.55% before ending the week higher. Mortgage rates have followed, and for conforming mortgages (those under this year's jumbo threshold of $322,700), the average 30-year fixed rate last week sank as low as 5.58%. That's down from just over 6% in October, reports mortgage-research firm HSH Associates. Deals on fixed-rate 15-year mortgages are even sweeter, having cracked the 5% barrier for the first time...
...every fraternity, brotherhood is the bond that holds the members of Florida International University's (F.I.U.) Gamma Lambda Mu together. But the Gamma men have taken pains to spell out the precise limits of their bonding: brothers, their bylaws say, may not date one another. All the Gammas, you see, are openly gay. The chastity rule is necessary, they say, to prove to their schoolmates that gay men can come together in the spirit of service and camaraderie and not for sex. "People think [a gay fraternity] is an orgy," says Mario Campa, 21, a fine-arts senior and Gamma...
...Indonesia, and it's unclear whether the warrants, which must pass through the foreign ministry, will even be sent to Indonesia. But the symbolism is potent?which is why Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta travelled to Indonesia soon after the indictments were lodged to reassure Indonesia that the bilateral bond remained the new nation's focus. "Justice must not come second," says Pereira, "but the issue the President raises is how to honor justice?and that is not by revenge...