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...reports between now and the presidential election on Nov. 2, TIME will explore the many ways in which American life has become a game of chance--one that has no mercy on Middle America and the working poor--and what can be done to restore decent odds for the pursuit of happiness. --With reporting by Laura Karmatz and Barbara Kiviat and research by Joan Levinstein
...these data had a definite effect on me--they changed my understanding of romantic love. For many years I had regarded this wonderful experience as a constellation of related emotions that ranged from elation to despair. But psychologists distinguish between emotions and motivations--brain systems oriented around planning and pursuit of a specific want or need. And our colleague Art Aron was wedded to the idea that romantic love was not an emotion but a motivation system designed to enable suitors to build and maintain an intimate relationship with a preferred mating partner...
...motor of the mind, the caudate nucleus, and it is fueled by at least one of nature's most powerful stimulants, dopamine. When passion is returned, the brain tacks on positive emotions, such as elation and hope. And all the while, regions of the prefrontal cortex monitor the pursuit--planning tactics, calculating gains and losses, and registering one's progress toward the goal: emotional, physical, even spiritual union with the beloved. Nature has produced a powerful mechanism to focus our precious courtship energy on a special other--an evolutionary miracle designed to produce more humans...
...demands of Ted in one of his bravura harangues. "Do you really believe that American capitalism will make the world a sweet safe place? It will pick it dry." The novel comes to a head in the present day with the two friends attempting a final, desperate gambit in pursuit of the ideals they shared in their youth, ideals that seem childish and dated even to them but that, like their friendship, they somehow can't abandon...
...lifts, Botox injections and dental work, Stacey went home to Nebraska from Hollywood an astonishing 35 lbs. lighter and looking like a newly minted pop star. In no time, her troublesome boyfriend was history and May, who glimpsed her again at a local street dance, was in hot pursuit. There were a few glitches, though: her 6-year-old niece Alexis failed to recognize her, and her co-workers at the nursing home resented her new image, she contends, and caused her to change jobs...