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...wasn't particularly happy or sad about being chosen," says Fan, who was 19 at the time. "My mind was just blank. I had no idea who this person was, what my future would be." They had dinner, a silent date for lack of a common language, and then she married the foreigner so her parents could earn $1,000. Her three sisters later made the same choice...
...earlier in the week, Park City was pretty perky at the prospect of Hollywood returning to business. "We're excited," said Mark Burton, president of production for independent film studio and financier IndieVest, before carving into his veal shank at one of the festival's hotter tickets, a ChefDance dinner at Harry O's nightclub. "There's something on the table. The writers are gonna have to have really strong reasons to turn this down." A film buyer sipping champagne at the bar expressed hope that the prospect of a settlement might calm Sundance's expected buying frenzy. "The prices...
Even with its intoxicating supply of dopamine, the ventral tegmental couldn't do the love job on its own. Most people eventually do leave the poker game or the dinner table, after all. Something has to turn the exhilaration of a new partner into what can approach an obsession, and that something is the brain's nucleus accumbens, located slightly higher and farther forward than the ventral tegmental. Thrill signals that start in the lower brain are processed in the nucleus accumbens via not just dopamine but also serotonin and, importantly, oxytocin. If ever there was a substance designed...
There may be a simple explanation for this. "I'm speculating," says Rena Repetti, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and one of the authors of the study, "but it may just be that some of these women are coming home and facing dinner prep and assisting the kids with homework, and they're not getting the help that the more maritally satisfied women are getting...
...likely to be overweight or obese. Married men, in particular, seem to pack on the pounds after they say their vows: they are nearly 20% more likely to be overweight or obese than are men who have never married--perhaps because they simply have someone to sit down to dinner with each night or perhaps because the often empty refrigerator of a onetime bachelor fills up fast when someone is making sure to do the shopping...