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...these improvements in social awareness lasted for nearly two weeks. (In 2006, Hollander filed a patent for the use of oxytocin to treat symptoms of autism spectrum disorders; the request is still pending). Investigators at Mount Sinai have also found that oxytocin nasal sprays enhance autistic patients' ability to interpret facial expressions...
...what a person is experiencing. "If somebody comes in and tells me they rushed in because they were late, and their blood pressure is high, I give them a pass," says Dr. Eric Peterson at Duke University. Individual readings taken a few months apart can also be difficult to interpret, he says. But measurements that patients take at home, several times a week, offer a more accurate picture of where their blood pressure stands...
...Liberals and conservatives will interpret the numbers in different ways, says Pew's Green. "The liberal [interpretation] is that Americans are becoming more universalistic, religiously. The conservative one is that Americans are losing faith and becoming more accommodationist." But he says the truth may lie elsewhere. "Just because they don't want to believe that there's only one way to salvation doesn't meant that they don't take their religion very seriously...
...avoid such a nightmare scenario, the report recommended that American nuclear assets in Europe be "consolidated," which analysts interpret as a recommendation to move the bombs to NATO bases under "U.S. wings," meaning American bases in Europe. But such a move would undermine a "burden-sharing" agreement that has been at the heart of NATO military policy since its inception...
...message on its label. The tea itself isn’t particularly good, but taste is a small price to pay for spiritual clarity.Take this gem, for example: “I’ve never looked through a keyhole without seeing someone looking back.” I interpret the message here to be about the importance of privacy. In my second year studying Japanese at Harvard, we learned that there is technically no word for privacy in Japanese; when the Japanese need to use the word “privacy”, they use the English derivative...