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...Moral Brain Scientists are overreaching if they think their mapping of the human brain explains moral behavior [Dec. 3]. If one section of the cortex "lights up" when we are solving dilemmas that engage us emotionally, and another when we are making cool, rational judgments, so what? The observed brain activity may help to tell us how we act and react, but that is very different from telling us why. The moral drive within us is not so easily explained. Alasdair Livingston, Adelaide
...that South Carolina stopped Bob Dole in 1988, handing the nomination to the establishment candidate, George Bush, the father. Then again in 2000, John McCain lost his cool and his lead in the face of a revolt from the party base, which chose another establishment candidate, George Bush...
...story, plus a profit share for the zoo of up to $5 million if the movie does well. Negotiations are still underway. Even without that deal, Knut's presence has earned the zoo millions of dollars in extra admission and merchandising fees. Nuremberg's zookeepers say that their initially cool response to saving the endangered cubs was meant to avoid another round of "knutmania"; one official insisted that baby giraffes were just as cute. But the reaction to the first photos of the new baby bear suggests that the fascination has hardly faded in Germany, whatever Hollywood decides...
...lower their own - and observers' - bar for success. Doug Gross, Romney's Iowa chairman, took the expectations game even further, recalling a past candidate who was "five states in before he won his first primary," and then went on to win the presidency. Romney accepted the silver with cool grace, but one wonders how well he would receive being compared to perennial GOP punching bag, Bill Clinton...
...youth appeal of Barack Obama was evident in the big crowds he drew as he campaigned across Iowa. There were a lot of fresh faces in those audiences, and many of them left wearing one of his extremely cool t-shirts...