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Known as oxytocin (not to be confused with the painkiller OxyContin), the naturally occurring hormone is best known for controlling contractions during labor, but it also plays a key role in other fundamental human urges - including the desire to connect with others. "Somehow, the peptide increases trust, or alters the way individuals see each other," says Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health...
...oxytocin-deficient among us, the hormone is commercially available on the Internet - new mothers sometimes use it to trigger the release of breast milk (and nearly half of all women who give birth in the U.S. intravenously receive Pitocin, a commercial version of oxytocin, to induce labor). But some entrepreneurs are already touting oxytocin as a shyness cure. One website hawks a "trust elixir," an oxytocin-laced perfume that its manufacturers say will make its wearers seem more trustworthy to others - and vice versa...
Jobs Program a Dud According to a Labor Department report, retraining workers who lose manufacturing jobs is not so easy as originally thought. An evaluation of the government job-training program for workers hurt by foreign trade found that only 1 in 5 retrained workers landed jobs paying at least 80% as much as their former jobs...
...media wax too self-righteous over the World Trade Center conspiracy, let us remember that 1993 marks the centenary of another ''great conspiracy.'' In 1893 the Governor of Illinois pardoned the surviving defendants of the Haymarket bombing case, which came out of the 1886 riots between police and labor protesters in Chicago. He condemned the case as a fraud and the resulting executions of defendants as judicial murder. Following the pardon, a monument was dedicated to those who had been found guilty with the words of a hanged defendant on the pedestal: ''The day will come when our silence will...
...investigation of a $1.2 million aircraft parts contract that Nielson's company signed with the federal government. Despite the image presented by quaintly dressed mothers and bucolic family life, the FLDS is a well-run business enterprise, Brower says, big in construction and trucking, relying on cheap labor provided by the community's ill-educated young men. "They know how to read a tape measure," he says...