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...another series of studies in the 1970s, scientists discovered links between serotonin and aggressive behavior. Monkeys with high levels of serotonin by-products in their blood, it turns out, tend to be feistier, and drugs that boost serotonin activity tend to calm them down. The serotonin-violence link appears to hold for humans as well. In 1979 psychiatrist Frederick Goodwin, now at George Washington University, discovered that Navy enlisted men with low levels of serotonin byproducts often had a history of aggression. Subsequent studies discovered similar evidence in Marines discharged for excessive violence, in people who became violent after drinking...
...This year, a backlash has a number of seats up for grabs, and Democrats think if they take enough, it could be sufficient to give them control of the House. As both men hole up with their advisors for some last minute preparation, the second round promises to be feistier than the first. Contrasting with his relatively low-key approach in the first debate, Dole announced this week that he will attack the President on ethics issues. In a lunchtime speech before supporters in San Diego, Dole floated a few debate-night themes: "No administration has been more self-righteous...
...shore up a weak side -- to lend geographical or ideological balance, for example. Conservative Californian Ronald Reagan picked Connecticut-Texas moderate George Bush. It may be a matter of ages, aesthetics, chemistry and coloring, as well as political alliances. Elder, moderate, military statesman Dwight Eisenhower chose younger, nastier, darker, feistier conservative Richard Nixon. At some time down the line, national tickets will be balanced by sex and race as well...
Ironically, the decision may help create the conditions for a feistier kind of student journalism. The court did not give schools the power to suppress independently produced student publications. The underground newspaper, a familiar sight in many schools 20 years ago, may be ripe for a comeback...
...There is no feistier figure in the personal computer business than Jack Tramiel, 54, president of Commodore International, whose PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) computer is the largest seller in Europe and one of the big four in the U.S. along with Apple, Radio Shack and IBM. Unwilling to be trammeled by cheaper imports, he called together investors a few years ago and said, "Gentlemen, we must build and sell a color computer for under $300." When the investors balked, Tramiel pounded the table and said that if they did not produce such a machine, the Japanese would. The result...