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...they have sex, reproduction is not always mentioned. So there's a separation between why the behavior evolved and why the actors actually engage in it. The same is true for altruistic tendencies. You share food with your kin. You share food with individuals who may repay the favor. So the sharing behavior evolved for self-interested reasons. But that doesn't mean that the individual actor, at the moment that he does it, is thinking of the potential benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Humans Actually Selfish? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...helm the Dunster House Opera in February, “Putting It Together” marks his directorial debut. The most recent major revival of “Putting It Together,” which opened on Broadway 10 years ago, was a disappointment to him, sacrificing meaning in favor of cuteness and kitsch. “I know kitsch is sometimes unavoidable in musical theater,” he jests, “but I try to avoid it as much as possible.” For Kramer, the greatest challenge of this production was interpreting the narrative created...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Musical Puts Hit Songs Together | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...Administration of every facility that we have," he said, warning that if Obama brings up the uranium facility, it "simply adds to the list of issues to which the United States owes the Iranian nation an apology over." And he boasted that Obama's "mistakes" work in Iran's favor. (Watch TIME's exclusive interview with Ahmadinejad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahmadinejad Rejects Obama's Nuclear Warning | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...disclose information about our operations and facilities to the IAEA. We do that on our own initiative, not that anyone forces us to. Now of course, I'm not the person who should be giving this advice to Mr. Obama because principally, Mr. Obama's mistakes work in our favor. But still, we do not want to see a president of a country like the United States of America to make blunders of the sort, to make mistakes of the sort. If documents of such nature are issued then it simply adds to the list of issues to which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...crisis around the world, which indignified the US government all together. Now Mr. Obama is seeking to restructure the American image all across the world. Well, he must refrain from making the same mistakes. This is simply a friendly advice that will be in Mr. Obama's favor. Otherwise, if you leave it to nations themselves, they understand what is going on. They can analyze the situation and compare things with one another and finally make up their own minds, but at the end of the day such statements really do not help restore America's image. I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

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