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...giving notice of the operation might have put troops at risk, but says "the advantage of avoiding casualties among civilians was more important." An Australian Defence spokesman declined to comment, but said its operational planning always involves "assessing the risk of civilian casualties and positively identifying enemy forces before contact is initiated...
...Bill Clinton said he hoped the rhetoric will "mellow out," though he understands that "we're going to have a few arguments - this is a contact sport. Sometimes when you have a family feud it's harder than when you have a feud with someone in a different clan because you have to dig deeper to find where the difference...
...eyeglasses to see distance, but at most events he won't wear them. Instead, he rattles through his stump speech-tax cuts increase revenue, beware of Hillary Clinton, remember 9/11-while gazing into a fuzzy void. The spectacles come on only briefly, during question time, so he can make eye contact with his inquisitors...
Scientists call all these little acts "contact-readiness" cues, because they indicate, nonverbally, that you're prepared for physical engagement. (More general body language is known as "nonverbal leakage." Deep in their souls, all scientists are poets.) These cues are a crucial part of what's known in human-ethology circles as the "heterosexual relationship initiation process" and elsewhere, often on the selfsame college campuses, as "coming on to someone." In primal terms, they're physical signals that you don't intend to dominate, nor do you intend to flee--both useful messages potential mates need to send before they...
...hormone sometimes called the cuddle chemical--surges in new mothers and, to a lesser extent, in new fathers, making their baby instantly irresistible to them. One thing grownups particularly can't resist doing is picking a baby up, and that too is a key to survival. "Babies need physical contact with human hands to grow and thrive," says Lisa Diamond, a psychologist at the University of Utah. Years of data have shown that premature babies who are regularly touched fare much better than those who aren...