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...midst of dining on lobster with drawn butter). Mikaela is worried about Sam going off to college, and she should be: Princeton is rendered as a Playboy mansion with dorms. The movie's main romantic tension revolves around the fact that she and Sam still haven't said "I love you" although they have had sex. We know this because Sam's mother Judy (Julie White) heard them. She divulges this information while high on a pot brownie she accidentally ate on Sam's first day at college...
...things driving that response, the most primal one may be evolution. Parents devote a lot of resources to raising a child - food, time, money, love - and those assets are usually in finite supply. All animals, humans included, are hardwired to spend wisely, devoting the most energy to the offspring most likely to yield the highest genetic payoff; healthy, beautiful offspring are the best bet of all. Perhaps women, who still must do the lion's share of childcare, are naturally more attuned to this trade-off than men are. "In general, men tend to be aesthetically oriented," Elman says...
...people of either gender react to a picture of an anonymous child with physical abnormalities is likely to be radically different from the way they would react if that child were their own - something that is readily evident from all the disabled children on whom parents lavish love. Still, the fact that both parents and nonparents in Elman's study reacted the same way to the pictures suggests that their responses are deeply ingrained and that they may be hard to mitigate simply by having children of their...
...first rain delay Nadal was up two sets to love, and his uncle, Toni Nadal - who is also his coach - basically says, "You're up two sets to love. What do you need me for?" Then he actually took a nap in the locker room. [During] the second rain delay, in the fifth set, Uncle Toni is giving Nadal a pep talk, and Nadal interrupts him and says, "Look, don't worry. I won the first and second sets - I can win the final...
...Obama and his aides have repeatedly said they want to avoid becoming a scapegoat for Iran's leadership. "The last thing that I want to do is to have the United States be a foil for those forces inside Iran who would love nothing better than to make this an argument about the United States," the President said in an interview broadcast on Monday morning. "We shouldn't be playing into that." Domestic politics is also playing into the strong rhetoric on the part of European leaders like Sarkozy and Merkel, according to Niblett. "It is in Sarkozy's nature...