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That knowledge also helps the brain figure out how much pleasure it can expect from future experiences and, therefore, influences virtually any decision you make about what you might like or not like: whether you should buy the red shirt or black one, whether you'll enjoy watching Top Chef over Mad Men, whether you should leave your job or whether you should move in with your boyfriend...
...answer to the latter question is, yes. Although dopamine may be crucial to making decisions about future pleasure, too much of it might distort those decisions. A surplus of dopamine is at the root of addiction, for instance: Cocaine, for one, works in part by preventing brain cells from reabsorbing dopamine that the brain has released in connection with pleasurable sensations. And once the brain has learned to like cocaine, it causes all kinds of self-destructive behavior to satisfy its cravings...
Just when it looked like the Harvard and Dartmouth women’s hockey teams might be heading towards overtime last Wednesday night, junior forward Liza Ryabkina marked her return to the ice with a game-winning goal for the Crimson. Harvard (6-3-1, 6-3 ECAC, 3-2 Ivy) beat Dartmouth (4-4-1, 4-4-1 ECAC, 3-2 Ivy), 3-2, at Bright Hockey Center...
...things differently. We cannot say after 15, 20 years that we cannot resolve our issues. This is about our capacity to adapt to new conditions, to analysts what are the new challenges. That's what the ANC is doing right now. We are just past the stage where we might have turned into something else - and where we might have fallen. I think that, instead, we have jumped forward...
...such a huge electoral majority, the polls don't do it for you? Are you trying to create the democracy - the accountability and transparency - that the ANC's majority negates. Zuma: We're dealing with a party that is very strong and is loved by the people. The opposition might have many things to say but they are not very strong. They cannot challenge us successfully - we are too strong. And the problem is that such support and power can intoxicate the party and lead you into believing that you know it all. You take things for granted...