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Reward mechanisms in the brain depend on how well you think other people are doing, a new neurological study suggests. The findings, published in the Nov. 23 issue of the journal Science are the first to lend physiological proof to a longstanding theory among contemporary economists: that people are affected not only by their own achievements and income, but also by how they stack up against their neighbors...
...Proof of this meritocracy hangs at Nasar's gallery in a show by NCA graduate Khadim Ali. Raised in Quetta, the son of Afghan refugees, Ali taught himself to draw using charcoal scavenged from bakeries. His artistic inspiration was his family's only book: an illustrated copy of the Shahnameh, a 10th century Persian epic revered in Afghanistan. The Taliban co-opted the poem's hero, Rustam, as a propaganda figure, telling Afghans that they, like him, were winged heroes endowed with arrows to defeat evil. Ali's phantasmagoric show, "Rustam," features a devil-figure with horns, wings...
...former mathematics teacher before joining the Khmer Rouge, oversaw S-21 prison with fastidious attention to detail. The prison's harrowing records survive: Mug shots of thousands of inmates, records of forced confessions elicited under torture, and post-execution photographs, which the ever-paranoid regime sometimes required as proof that its enemies, real and imagined, had been dispatched...
...measure of what it means to live with style?whether it's in reference to food, fashion or manners. The Ferragamo name is synonymous with beautiful shoes, but what is most impressive about the family is the style they bring to all that they do. They're living proof that taste comes from within. You can't buy it (although you can certainly buy tasteful things, as Kristina Zimbalist points out in her story about how hedge-fund managers spend their spoils...
...accounts and board airliners. DHS Chieftain Michael Chertoff ’75 more than sanctioned the switch, asserting that the New York license system would become “among the most secure in the country.” Special licenses that don’t require submission of proof of legal residency are not recognized at the federal level. They only allow the carrier to operate a vehicle safely.The three-tier system would have made local security smoother for law enforcement. As Sen. Clinton noted, officers with more records are able to identify dangerous motorists and discourage otherwise unlicensed...