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What was your greatest accomplishment as Secretary? Lester Palencia Ordan SANTA CRUZ, PHILIPPINES...
This is not the only study to have suggested that disbelief and moral outrage may be processed in the area of the brain that makes us go "Blechh." Sam Bowles, professor of human behavior at the Santa Fe Institute, describes research in which an unfair business deal produced a response in the same region. How did disgust get involved in the belief-and-disbelief business? Some think it started as a fairly straightforward adaptation to enable a suspicious taste, smell or appearance--like that of vermin--to trigger the impulse to eliminate the source. We may have then generalized that...
...this year in Waitress. Both are Old Testament deity types who want to spend their largesse on one lavish good deed, instead of, say, giving all the people in their employ a $2-an-hour pay raise. But, no, that would merely promote the general welfare; movies are about Santa Clauses choosing one person to give all the toys to - some poor but noble soul who's rarely caught a break...
Oddly, that's not a vain hope. My son has put up a tree in his Muslim home; I've been told to find a Santa suit, and my grandkids are learning carols. This is the peace I find in Bethlehem at Christmas...
...What is your beef with Rupert Murdoch? -Linda Weir, Santa Monica, Calif.I have no personal beef with him. He made one or two moves that we believe were anticompetitive, so we've taken that to the authorities, who will decide if he's behaving in an anticompetitive way. But if he invited me to dinner, I would be happy to go with...