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...more so actually, since a celibate person can at least continue living but a starving person can't. Yet while we may build whole institutions around the simple ritual of eating, it never turns us flat-out nuts. Romance does. "People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms for love," says Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University and something of the Queen Mum of romance research. "They live for love, die for love, kill for love. It can be stronger than the drive to stay alive...
...Fisher and her colleagues have conducted recent fMRI scans of people who are not just in love but newly in love and have found that their ventral tegmental areas are working particularly hard. "This little factory near the base of the brain is sending dopamine to higher regions," she says. "It creates craving, motivation, goal-oriented behavior-and ecstasy...
...Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...evident in the way in which we’ve played.” Harvard will look to keep its head up against Colgate tomorrow night at Lavietes before traveling to Dartmouth on Friday for a rematch with the Big Green. —Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu
...made a team effort to focus on the penalty kill and get the job done.” Both teams were scoreless in the third period, and the game went into overtime. In the final moments, Dufault shot a one-timer at the Bobcats goal, but Quinnipiac netminder Bud Fisher was too quick. Meintel had another chance to earn the win for the Crimson as he shook off his defender and snapped a wrist shot toward the goal, but the puck just missed the net, leaving Harvard with a draw. “We’re never happy with...