Word: neighborism
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...They were right to be scared. The night after Wang's murder, a 20-year-old woman from neighboring Hunan province, who had been lured to Wuhan by its employment possibilities only three weeks earlier, headed home at 3 a.m. from a night market where she had a job washing dishes. At dawn, a neighbor discovered her corpse on the building's stairs. "She had just started climbing when he stabbed her," says the neighbor. She had 38 stab wounds. The Red Dress Killer had struck again...
...emotions. When your mind feels terror, the resulting surge of adrenaline makes your stomach churn. When your mind is sexually aroused, the body responds in unmistakable fashion. The effect is even more direct with the 60 or so chemicals known as neurotransmitters, which signal one cell that its neighbor has just sparked and that it should pass along the message. Brain chemicals such as serotonin circulate everywhere, not only in the brain. "Depression really is a systemic disorder," says Evans, "and many of the neurotransmitters that we believe are involved in the pathophysiology of depression have effects throughout the body...
...world is used to North Korea’s lunacy. We have heard enough of its pompous threats and bizarre ways to determine with great confidence that the North is an economic and psychological basket case. Its neighbor South Korea, on the other hand, has been as sensible as the North is senseless, embracing capitalism and democracy, technology and internationalism, all underwritten by a security guarantee courtesy of the United States. So it is easily the second most disturbing part of the current North Korea crisis, after the prospect of a growing nuclear arsenal in the hands of the world?...
...enthusiasm isn't shared overseas. Hopes seem to be dimming that Turkey will allow its bases to be used as stepping stones to open a northern front against Iraq. Turkish Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis said last week that his nation isn't interested in "opening a front against its neighbor." Nearly 9 of every 10 Turks oppose a U.S.-led war against Iraq, according to a recent survey, and only 5.9% think Turkey should provide any assistance Washington needs. --By Mark Thompson
...understand why South Korea seems less concerned about its belligerent neighbor North Korea having nuclear weapons and more concerned about its hegemonic U.S. ally, visit the S bar in Seoul's chic Apgujeong quarter. It's only 40 kilometers to the dmz?well within artillery range?but you can't get much farther from the Stalinist North than this hip watering hole, where college student Lee Sung Yeon, 20, sips expensive cocktails with her girlfriends and talks about politics. Lee didn't attend recent anti-American protests, during which some of the demonstrators called for the withdrawal...