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...variant did show weaker responses to negative feedback, they did not perform markedly worse on the task at hand: They selected the good symbols from the bad about as often as participants who didn't have the allele. The results suggest that learning - though influenced by dopamine - is a complex process that involves much more than one kind of brain receptor. "It's just one factor that may contribute to some problems that might arise in some people," says Markus Ullsperger, a co-author of the Science paper, based at the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne...
...those that actually live the lifestyle hip-hop albums promote. But somehow, hip hop is supposed to be viable explanation for the fact that homicide is the leading cause of death for 15-24 year old black males? Passing the buck for one of society’s most complex and nuanced problems to a type of music is the epitome of laziness...
...that “undergraduate life at the College today is not giving due encouragement to civic courage and political engagement,” as our ornery alumni suggest. Though they’ve asked Faust to charter a task force with a name so long and grammatically complex that it cannot possibly be anything but a good idea, no amount of administrative prodding will wake us up to the fact that, as they claim, “the US is engaged in an occupation abroad...while at the same time trampling on US citizens’ own constitutional rights...
...When the brothers arrived at the informant's apartment complex, the police moved in. Minutes later, Eljvir was arrested when he came back from taking Dritan's kids to get ice cream. Shnewer was arrested while waiting for customers in the taxi line at Philadelphia International Airport. When he saw the police approaching, he joked to his fellow drivers, "See, when I hang out with you guys, you get me in trouble." Tatar was arrested at his Philadelphia apartment, where he lived with his wife. The informant, Omar, has vanished...
...After Brown finally collected the keys to 10 Downing Street on June 27, his first three months in office exceeded expectations - his and his country's. Many Britons, even those who rejoiced at Tony Blair's exit, had worried that their brainy, brawny Chancellor of the Exchequer was too complex and introspective to make an effective Prime Minister. Instead, the contrast between Brown and his quicksilver predecessor helped to win over skeptics. Yes, the new Premier was dull by comparison, but reassuringly...