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That's the dirty little secret about sports fans. We're basically amoral. Kant said that acting ethically means treating other people as ends in and of themselves, not merely as means to our own desires. But that's exactly how fans treat coaches and players. We want them to win because when they do, we bask in the glory. Supporting a winner makes us feel like winners. A few years back, an Indiana University researcher showed that when Indiana won, avid fans actually grew more confident that they could get dates...
...book, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Jeffrey Toobin proves again that he is one of the sharpest court watchers in America. Based on rare interviews with the Justices, Toobin, the legal correspondent for CNN and The New Yorker, traces the extreme rightward turn that the high court has taken under George W. Bush. Yes, Virginia: the Supreme Court reads the election returns. TIME's publishing reporter, Andrea Sachs, caught up with Toobin just as his book hit the shelves...
...Today, Locke's narrow, dirt paths, stray cats and precariously-leaning buildings conceal a secret: Locke's identity is changing. Today, only 12 of the 80 residents are Chinese, with whites and Latinos having gradually replaced the founding population. On weekends, most visitors are leather-clad bikers who stop in to grab a steak and beer at Al the Wop's, one of Locke's two restaurants...
...secret that exercise is key to controlling type 2 diabetes - and many doctors already urge their diabetic patients to get active. But it's a vague directive: How much exercise is enough? How often? And what kind? The simple answer is that any is better than none - in sum, that's what a new study published in the Sept. 18 issue of the journal Annals of Internal Medicine found. But it also found that not all exercise is created equal and that the combination of aerobic exercise and weight training is significantly better for controlling blood sugar than either alone...
...addition to trumpeting their collaboration, both German and U.S. officials have seized on the case to push for the implementation of controversial eavesdropping measures, including greater powers of electronic surveillance. In Germany, Schaeuble is arguing for measures that would include the secret installation of spying software via the Internet on suspects' personal computers in order to monitor their communications. "The experts agree that terrorists communicate with each other more and more through the Internet," he told reporters on the day of the arrests. "Therefore, in exceptional cases, we need to have the power to get into computers." But the proposal...