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...realm of national security, the center is planning initiatives to limit America's exposure to Internet terrorists...
...realm of national security, the center is planning initiatives to limit America's exposure to Internet terrorists...
Stigmatizing suicides makes their occurrence more likely. By relegating suicide to the realm of the abnormal and the incomprehensible, we deny that the victim was ordinary like us. But by doing so, we stigmatize our own feelings of depression and clam up, alone and unheard...
Evolutionary psychologist David Buss, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin, has pondered the sociobiological logic of forgiveness and concluded that at least in the realm of mating, men and women may be programmed to employ it differently. Males, he suggests, are less likely to forgive a fling because if the woman becomes pregnant, "a man doesn't want to be investing resources in other men's children." In contrast, a woman may be more forgiving of a man's one-time infidelity (assuming that he has already given her a child) but less forgiving of a long...
...Alan Turing had done was answer, in the negative, a vexing question in the arcane realm of mathematical logic, few nonspecialists today would have any reason to remember him. But the method Turing used to show that certain propositions in a closed logical system cannot be proved within that system--a corollary to the proof that made Kurt Godel famous--had enormous consequences in the world at large. For what this eccentric young Cambridge don did was to dream up an imaginary machine--a fairly simple typewriter-like contraption capable somehow of scanning, or reading, instructions encoded on a tape...