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...studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth surrogate mother rather than one made of wire, even when the wire "mother" carried a food bottle. Harlow's work and subsequent studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skills...
...American who has the slightest contact with a television, radio, or newspaper knows the unlikely story of George W. Bush: a party-going, beer-loving, underachieving cowboy from Texas somehow beats all odds to become the 43rd President of the United States. But “W.,” Oliver Stone’s disappointing and ill-advised dramatization of this story, “misunderestimates” the role that intrigue and innovation, rather than controversy alone, play in depicting the life of a leader...
...VIDEO GAME Dead Space When a derelict mining ship won't respond to radio contact, it's usually a bad sign. In this top-notch, incredibly bloody sci-fi horror game (PS3, Xbox 360 and PC), the bad guy is an alien life-form that reanimates the dead people on board into zombies. You shoot them...
There's nothing unusual about writers recycling material. They're a larcenous bunch; literature is an economy based almost entirely on theft. But when a writer steals from him- or herself, something quite different is going on. This kind of revisiting is a way for older writers to make contact with their younger selves across the abyss of time--to engage themselves in conversation, to argue over what they missed and what they got wrong and, above all, to register the ways that time has altered their understanding of the world--to get, by means of triangulation, some perspective...
Last week, Chambers’ blasphemous legal battle finally met with defeat, as the inability to contact the plaintiff overcame the senator’s quixotic fervor and a judge denied his request for a judgment. But, in the legislator’s defense, his justification for the lawsuit has generally been lost amid the frenzied media coverage...