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Most previous research on oxytocin has focused on animals. (Prairie voles are famous for their oxytocin-inspired behavior: they're fiercely monogamous lovers and caring parents.) But more recently, scientists have begun to determine how oxytocin functions in the human brain - or, more specifically, how it malfunctions. Studies have shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Oxytocin Ease Shyness? | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

There's no telling whether it works - products like these aren't classified as drugs, so they aren't evaluated by the FDA - but, at least in theory, it ought to make love, lust or trust bloom a little faster. That's not unlike the drug ecstasy, which triggers the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Oxytocin Ease Shyness? | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama started his second day in Afghanistan in a thoroughly American manner: a breakfast of bacon and eggs. He dined with American troops on a military base in the capital, Kabul, with his congressional traveling companions, Senators Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Sees 'Precarious' Afghanistan | 7/20/2008 | See Source »

McCain's campaign, meanwhile, has been hammering Obama in a new negative attack ad that accuses the Illinois Senator of shirking his Senate oversight responsibilities on Afghanistan and voting against a funding bill for troops in Iraq. (Obama's vote was a protest against the war policy, not a rejection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaving Iraq: Debate Shifts to When | 7/20/2008 | See Source »

For now, Thorn lives part-time in two places - his daughter's house in Galesburg, Illinois, where he and his wife relocated on June 7, and "out of a suitcase" in Iowa City. "I'm going to be able to write a hell of a book about cheap motels in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FEMA Gets Better Grades in Iowa | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

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