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...make choices, which then affect our brain chemistry. In trying to be scientific, we often reverse the relationship. While Jeffrey Kluger may value the choices we make, he did not use the word choices in his examination of morality. The connection we have with our community is a powerful factor in how we choose to behave, of course, and we do place others outside our community. This can help us understand how a person we label a terrorist can be considered a hero within his community. We have much work to do yet. Tom Edgar, Boise, Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

While Mike Huckabee is surging in both polls and fund-raising, he is far behind former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in terms of organization--a key factor in Iowa, where 1,781 caucuses determine the winner. Each campaign must recruit voters in every caucus to stand up and make their candidate's case. That kind of outreach can take a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huckabee Rising | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...four years back. He has since kept his hair short. "It's great not to have to tie a turban every morning and maintain long hair," he says. "It helped that I didn't have to deal with disapproving looks from my family and neighbors." Convenience is a huge factor for Sikh mothers, too - young, working mothers have no time for the elaborate, early-morning practice of tying turbans and washing boys' long hair on weekends. Moreover, community leaders feel, efforts to preach their values to young Sikhs have lagged. "In India, education has become so secular that even Sikh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India 'Idol' Launches a New Turban Legend | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...Bunker Hill, Woo’s decision to apply was motivated entirely by her long-held goal, she said. She had walked around campus on her own, but never took an official campus tour, since she knew it “wouldn’t be a big determining factor...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Ticket Out of Poverty | 12/11/2007 | See Source »

Starting next semester, students could find the size of their e-mail storage space multiplied by a factor of nearly twenty, as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) considers launching a pilot program to outsource undergraduates’ e-mail to an external provider. Following this fall’s successful launch of Google mail accounts for new students at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), FAS Information Technology (IT) has begun exploring the possibility of a similar pilot program for students in the College. As with the GSD system, the domain name of students’ e-mail...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FAS Explores New E-mail Options | 12/11/2007 | See Source »

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