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...home-insurance policy? Fall on your knees and pray for deliverance? All logical enough reactions, but not your very first one. Instead, even when faced with imminent disaster, you'll spend precious time asking, "What was that?" It's called the cognitive imperative, the uniquely human, hardwired instinct to link cause with effect that gave us a vital evolutionary advantage over other animal species. After all, the noise could be just a passing truck and nothing to lose precious sleep over. Delineating how we react to an earthquake is just one example of the cognitive imperative described in Six Impossible...
...election, and what their precise role should be. For villagers, the Katanga campaign has been calamitous. Flying low over Lake Upemba in northern Katanga in mid-March, hundreds of people could be seen encamped on slivers of dry land in the water, with dugout canoes as their only link to the world. Thousands of others have wandered, sometimes for weeks, across the roadless landscape of forests and waterfalls, finally staggering nearly starved into small towns. There, they tell of Mai Mai fighters placing victims' heads on sticks to proclaim control; of ravenous government soldiers pillaging food stocks; and of each...
...ones. "There's no place for nuclear weapons in our national security doctrine," Larijani told TIME. He points out that Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei has issued a fatwa forbidding the use of nuclear weapons. But such claims were undermined again in January when the IAEA reported an administrative link between a uranium-conversion program known as Green Salt and efforts to weaponize missiles that, for the first time, appeared to show an attempt to harness the nuclear program for military purposes...
This year, the College introduced neighborhood blocking. Blocking groups were able to link with other groups to ensure that the two would be in nearby houses. The innovation is a clever way to prevent the Quad-River split between friends in different blocking groups that so many first-years fear, and it addresses the needs of friends who are close, but not quite close enough to enter the House lottery together. Thanks to linking, blocking this year has been a bit easier...
...maintains that the Pittsburgh case involved a specific investigative lead that suggested a link between the antiwar group and an ongoing investigation, and when no such link was found, the surveillance was terminated. "We don't surveil antiwar groups based on their First Amendment activities," FBI spokesman Bill Carter told Time.com...