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...dating is how this screening takes place. It's when that process pays off-when you finally feel you've found the right person-that the true-love thrill hits, and studies of the brain with functional magnetic resonance imagers (fMRIs) show why it feels so good. The earliest fMRIs of brains in love were taken in 2000, and they revealed that the sensation of romance is processed in three areas. The first is the ventral tegmental, a clump of tissue in the brain's lower regions, which is the body's central refinery for dopamine. Dopamine does...
...writing of history is one of the great legacies of the ancient Greeks, and its earliest masters, Herodotus and Thucydides, are as central to the foundations of Western civilization as Homer, Socrates and Sophocles. In more modern times, multivolume sagas of crumbling empires, explosive revolutions and nations nudging toward greatness were huge best sellers, making historians like Edward Gibbon, Thomas Macaulay and Thomas Carlyle as well known as Stephen King and John Grisham are today...
Along with Herodotus - hailed here as "a marker set down against the oblivion with which time threatens all human deeds" - and Thucydides, the earliest exponent of realpolitik, Burrow devotes the first third of his book to a long line of Greco-Roman historians. He goes on to discuss "the radical and pervasive" impact of the Bible on history - for example, in the writings of the 6th century French Bishop Gregory of Tours, whom he dubs "Trollope with blood." Equally intriguing is Burrow's discussion of the secular historian Geoffrey of Monmouth, a fabricator who claimed that his 12th century account...
...social issues that you have taken positions on that are not usually associated with the Republican Party. Is that a direction that you think the party can grow? And also immigration.... On an issue such as climate change... That is a return to the Republican Party all through the earliest party of the 20th century. Teddy Roosevelt was a great environmentalist. [Ronald] Reagan even was an environmentalist.... So some of the things that I am advocating are not so much change, as return to the principles and values that not only made our party a successful party, but was good...
...shuts certain states out of the selection process. There is no reason we should allow Iowa or New Hampshire to hold a privileged position in primary season every four years. Instead of starting with the same states during every election, we ought to rotate the states that have the earliest primaries each time. Nevertheless, suggestions that Democrats and Republicans should switch to a nationwide primary are misguided. Having all states vote simultaneously would disrupt the small scale of primaries that allows voters a close and detailed perspective on the candidates. In the tradition of retail politics, many voters can meet...