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...oversees. Although Shas voted with some conservative parties opposed to Barak's peace proposals, the bill has to pass two further readings before becoming law, and the party's leaders made clear they would return to the fold if the prime minister agrees to resume negotiations over funding their pet project...
...music's emotional impact, there is some indication that music can affect levels of various hormones, including cortisol (involved in arousal and stress), testosterone (aggression and arousal) and oxytocin (nurturing behavior) as well as trigger release of the natural opiates known as endorphins. Using PET scanners, Zatorre has shown that the parts of the brain involved in processing emotion seem to light up with activity when a subject hears music...
Doris Dillon knew she wanted to be a teacher from the moment she was named library monitor in third grade. For years she practiced on every doll, stuffed animal and family pet. When she graduated to real elementary school students, so deftly did she zero in on each child's learning style that it was said she could "teach a rock to read." Parents pleaded to have their children placed in her classes. Colleagues copied her methods. For hundreds of schoolkids in San Jose, Calif., Mrs. Dillon embodied some of their favorite fictional characters--Miss Rumphius, Ms. Frizzle...
...pet theory of mine that women better accommodate change than men do because of the biological vicissitudes that mark their lives--ovulation, menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause. By contrast, the typical man, usually around adolescence, invents a persona for himself. He establishes a personal brand identity and then struggles to maintain it, with mind-numbing intransigence, amid the fluctuations of the world around...
...April, a flotilla of DuPont lobbyists converged on Speaker John Thrasher's office. Thrasher had earlier asked Republicans studying the bill to oppose it. Now he refused to let it come up for a vote. With the clock running, allies of Barr hatched a plan to deny Thrasher a pet bill of his own unless this one was attached. But at the last minute they veered away, unsure of their support...