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...Judy and her husband Ron (Kevin Dunn) are the movie's main sources of comic relief. Or maybe my affection for them had deeper psychological roots. Maybe I saw them as my allies. The movie is like the play date from hell, the kind where a crew of children reduce your home to rubble and conduct endless bouts of loud war on the living-room floor while you ponder the propriety of opening a bottle of wine. On occasions like that, another set of parents, no matter how irritating, can be as welcome as Optimus Prime rising from the dead...
...never been a secret that beautiful people get more breaks than everyone else, nor that the bias may start in the nursery. An oft cited - and deeply disturbing - Israeli study once showed that 70% of abused or abandoned children had at least one apparent flaw in their appearance, which otherwise had no impact on their health or educability. McLean psychiatrist Dr. Igor Elman and postdoctoral student Rinah Yamamoto devised a study to explore that phenomenon more closely. (See pictures of pregnant-belly...
...study were less likely than women to click off photos of unattractive babies - viewing them for the full four seconds - but clicked quite a bit to hold on to the images of the pretty ones. Their reactions were the same whether they had children of their own or not. Women, conversely, left the keyboard alone when they were looking at pretty babies but hurried away from the less attractive ones - with the results again not seeming to be influenced by whether or not they were mothers themselves. (See seven iPhone applications for new moms...
More important, the way people of either gender react to a picture of an anonymous child with physical abnormalities is likely to be radically different from the way they would react if that child were their own - something that is readily evident from all the disabled children on whom parents lavish love. Still, the fact that both parents and nonparents in Elman's study reacted the same way to the pictures suggests that their responses are deeply ingrained and that they may be hard to mitigate simply by having children of their...
...results were encouraging. While several proteins were repeatedly found in the urine samples from children with confirmed appendicitis, the most promising was leucine-rich alpha-2-glycoprotein, or LRG, which had statistically negligible rates of false results, meaning that it could correctly identify patients who had appendicitis and those who did not. The researchers were thrilled. "It appears to be accurate in both diagnosing the true positives and the true negatives," says Kentsis...