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...Explain...
...perfectionism, hypersensitivity and perseverance - traits that, combined with low self-esteem, appear to be preconditions for anorexia. Typically striking in adolescence, the disorder is more common in affluent countries and, within those, in wealthier families. For every boy who gets it, nine girls do. There have been attempts to explain anorexia in the same way most doctors account for depression - as resulting from an imbalance of certain neurotransmitters in the brain - but these have tended to lead nowhere. Since anorexia was named in 1868 by English physician William Gull, says Mondraty, "we haven't made much progress on treatment...
...nowhere to be seen. The study included a map on which states were shaded by various hues of red: the darker the hue, the greater the percentage of college student volunteers in that state. Massachusetts, as it were, was an immaculate white. (I won’t try to explain the significant positive correlation between red states on this map and those on a traditional red-blue map. The political repercussions are beyond this piece.) Coming in 47th out of 50 states, the state that puts “The Spirit of America” on its license plates...
...director who specializes in movies people watch through their fingers, Rob Zombie, the tattooed heavy-metal vocalist. "I told him to talk to the MPAA as a filmmaker," says Zombie, 41, whose depraved gorefest The Devil's Rejects contains what many consider cinema's most artful human-roadkill scene. "Explain why the extreme violence is necessary to tell the story in a way that's more socially responsible." When pressed, Zombie admits he doesn't actually care what's socially responsible. He just wanted to help out a kindred spirit, another guy who understands the unique beauty of a properly...
...possible that the source of human creativity is simply beyond our comprehension? When I marvel at a Mozart adagio or Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, I simply cannot grasp how each artist accomplished what he did. Human genius amazes because it is a mystery. If science could explain how genius came to be, the wonder would be gone...