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...authors of the study are reluctant to draw such broad conclusions about the gender disparities. "There are many different possible explanations," says NIMH neuroscientist Daniel Pine, who suggests a much more ordinary reason for the girls' more emotional response. "It might be possible that the girls are trying to remember what they wrote earlier [about the kids in the photos]," he says. "You can imagine a scenario where they say, 'Oh, did I write something bad about that girl?' Boys are simply doing that less." In other words, it may be that boys are cads because they're not wired...
TIME: Why did you put such an eclectic series of work together in the same book? Ames: Why did I do this? It appealed to me, these different areas that I was writing about. There's no real reason. They don't go together aside from the fact that they come from the same time in my life. This is my record of what I've been writing for the last 2½ years...
...what's the reason for all this bullishness? Surely not the economy, which continues to muddle along through the muck of heavy consumer debt and a poor housing market. But businesses are in better shape, and the financial crisis seems to be fading from view, even as small business lender CIT struggles to survive another day. (Stock futures turned negative after the market close on news that CIT was not likely to get a government rescue.) (Watch TIME's video of Peter Schiff trash-talking the markets...
...professor of speech language pathology and audiology at New York University. In humans too, the urge to swear likely stems from primitive parts, but it is usually overridden by commands from the brain's more complex cortex - the abundant gray matter on which humans rely for language and reason, among other sophisticated abilities. "We have intact frontal lobes, which inhibit these responses," Sidtis explains. But in certain circumstances - either because we don't bother to inhibit them or because the shock of pain or discomfort momentarily surpasses the safeguards - our impulse for obscenity takes over. "In that...
...confirmed to Time the existence of Buchwalter's testimony after it was first reported by French daily Le Figaro. "Why were only the severed heads of the monks found and returned to France? If you can find the heads, you can find the bodies - unless there's a reason someone doesn't want the bodies to be found...