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...deliver for best song, from the weeny Irish film Once. It wasn't the best song - indeed, none of the five finalists deserved to be nominated in a category that has honored "Lullaby of Broadway," "The Way You Look Tonight," "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," "Over the Rainbow," "Under the Sea," "Streets of Philadelphia" and "Theme from Shaft" - but the gesture was cool...
This is not the only study to have suggested that disbelief and moral outrage may be processed in the area of the brain that makes us go "Blechh." Sam Bowles, professor of human behavior at the Santa Fe Institute, describes research in which an unfair business deal produced a response in the same region. How did disgust get involved in the belief-and-disbelief business? Some think it started as a fairly straightforward adaptation to enable a suspicious taste, smell or appearance--like that of vermin--to trigger the impulse to eliminate the source. We may have then generalized that...
...manage to get such interesting guests playing themselves on Extras. Has anyone turned you down? -Lou Zervakos, Santa Fe, N.M.No one turned us down. With De Niro-we worked on a film called Stardust-I sidled up to him and went, "I think you're the best actor in the whole world." I thought that's the last I'll ever hear from him. Then a few days later the phone goes off. "Hi, it's Bob." And I went, "I thought I told you never to call me." Luckily, he laughed...
What do you see as Americans' chief fault? Drew Renner, SANTA FE, N.M., U.S. The present flaw of the American administration is not paying enough attention to history. There is an attitude, even in universities, that considers history as something remote and not useful...
...with some relief that I learned that eco-anxiety is a diagnosable condition. A so-called eco-therapist in Santa Fe, N.M., reportedly sees up to 80 patients a month who complain of panic attacks, loss of appetite, irritability and what she describes as some sort of a twitchy sensation in their cells. Eco-anxiety is not new--the etymology website WordSpy found it mentioned in a 1990 Washington Post article--but it's only now becoming widespread. Environmental consciousness is no longer just another lifestyle choice, like open marriages or joining the circus; it has been upgraded...