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...small study, the researchers scanned the brains of 26 men as they each performed a simple task: choosing one symbol from a pair of symbols. After each selection, the participant was presented with a smiley face or sad face, depending on the symbol he had chosen. All men were equally good at learning to pick the symbols that won them a smiley face, but some men were worse than others at avoiding the ones that resulted in sad faces. Those men, it turns out, had a particular gene variant, or allele, that reduces the density of receptors for dopamine...
According to Details, the 50 men chosen “are the ones who control your viewing patterns, your buying habits, your anxieties, your lust—the things you think about.” The list also includes Harry Potter (#41), Ellen DeGeneres’ dog, Iggy (#29), and–of course–Kevin Federline (#7), who snagged the front page...
...improve the event from its previous incarnations. “I think this is probably on a bigger scale than they probably ever had,” she said. Leftover clothing, as well as proceeds from the sale of tickets, will be donated to local charities to be chosen by the event planners. Women’s Center intern Kameron A. Collins ’09 said that he felt associating the brunch with a charitable cause was a selling point for the event. “It taps into two interests that students have, which are public service...
...peril on the horizon - especially to an American public that feels it was already duped once on Iraq's supposed WMD. President Bush made headlines six weeks ago by warning that Iran's nuclear activity could be the cause of World War III. Even then, his words were carefully chosen: Bush did not say World War III would be the consequence of Iran attaining a nuclear weapon; he said, "If you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from hav[ing] the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon...
...system, known as instant-runoff voting, students rank their preferred candidates instead of voting for a single one. If no ticket wins a majority of the first-place votes, the candidates with the least votes are eliminated and their votes redistributed until a victor is ultimately chosen...