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...even if it didn't have a wider political significance, the murder of McCord, Jr., cut the bottom out of his father's life. The hard man's instinct was for revenge, but McCord's ex-wife and his two surviving sons extracted a promise that he would stay within the law. Bound by that commitment, he used his head, channeling his rage into a determination to bring the killers to justice...
...triangles--a task Daniel's sister Lois, 2 1/2, is happily tackling as she waits for her brother? "Babies have to learn everything, but as Piaget was saying, they start with a few primitive reflexes that get things going," says Sirois. For example, hardwired in the brain is an instinct that draws a baby's eyes to a human face. From brain-imaging studies we also know that the brain has some sort of visual buffer that continues to represent objects after they have been removed--a lingering perception rather than conceptual understanding. So when babies encounter novel or unexpected...
Steven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard and the author of The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate
...Congress, it will be harder to get a strong U.S. position. Do you agree? Without doubt, the Administration needs to do some heavy lifting with a Congress it no longer controls and a farm lobby that still has considerable power. Against this, President Bush is a free trader by instinct and wants to do the deal. We need to show that, in fact, it will not cost the U.S. much to cut its subsidies, yet will provide longer-term benefits to the economy. Agriculture is still the biggest sticking point...
Coming through one last highway tunnel, the Alps appear suddenly, sitting like a silent committee of gods. Mountains are a testament to nature's power, and to the human instinct to defy it. The very tunnel that provides such easy access to the slopes is an impressive victory for the mortals. But this winter, the mountain gods are reminding mankind just who's in charge. The ski season in Europe began as one of the barest on record, and even when the snow has fallen misfortune has frequently followed. High temperatures have caused a series of pro races...