Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pleasant feelings. Because social cooperation improves the chances of survival, natural selection imbued our minds with an infrastructure for friendship, including affection, gratitude and trust. (In technical terms, this is the machinery for "reciprocal altruism.") And the fact that offspring carry our genes into posterity accounts for the immense joy of parental love...
...socially redeeming lesson we can derive from the Susan Smith case, then, is that girls need the possibility of some great adventures other than romantic love. Yes, love is a joy and a shining moment of transcendence in our life. But it is not the only one. If I controlled the nation's playlists, there'd be a lot fewer songs about "giving all for love," and plenty of danceable tunes about running for Congress or getting through community college as a single mother...
...WHAT A JOY IT WOULD BE TO VOTE FOR A candidate I actually want in the White House instead of settling for the lesser of two evils . Please, General Powell, run! LAURA FRANCIS Austin, Texas...
...Gaza Strip. Given the approach of this new phase of Palestinian self-determination, and given the wobbly but undeniable progress toward a secure peace that the Palestinians and Israelis have made since they signed the Oslo Accords in 1993, it might be expected that Arafat would display some joy and satisfaction these days. But he appears more fatigued than exhilarated, more fatalistic than hopeful. And the same can be said for his people...
...bodkin of his eponymous house over to 34-year-old English designer JOHN GALLIANO, not such a classical-music kind of guy. Recently, Givenchy's relationship with his backers has been strained, but the couturier is "a happy man," he told Le Figaro. "I am left with the joy of having had the most beautiful profession in the world...