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That's probably because humans are hardwired to swear cathartically, says Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist and author of The Stuff of Thought, an exploration of the psychology of language. Pinker distinguishes cathartic cursing from using profanity descriptively, idiomatically, abusively or for emphasis, and points to similar behavior in animals that suggests its evolutionary roots. If you step on a dog or cat's tail, it will let out a sharp yelp of pain, for example. "Swearing probably comes from a very primitive reflex that evolved in animals," Pinker says. "In humans, our vocal tract has been hijacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bleep! My Finger! Why Swearing Helps Ease Pain | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

...published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, only 2 percent of medical students said that they were planning on becoming general internal medicine physicians, even while the number of older Americans who depend on such first-stop doctors is expected to double between 2005 and 2030. A similar study two decades earlier had seen roughly 9 percent of students saying they would be entering primary care, according to a 2008 Associated Press report...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Suspends Funding for Primary Care Division | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

...Similar doubts exist about the official story in the Pakistan bombing case. French counterterrorism officials have been privately airing their skepticism about jihadist responsibility for the 2002 attack for months. In June, word leaked to the press that the investigating magistrates handling the case had all but abandoned the idea that al-Qaeda was behind the bombing. Lawyers representing families of the attack's French victims told reporters they'd received a briefing by Trévidic and fellow judge Yves Jannier in which they were told that Pakistani officials may have organized the strike. This new theory hinges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Seven Dead Monks Upset President Nicolas Sarkozy's Bold Plans To Remake France's Legal System? | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

...have chosen a smarter channel for voicing those concerns. Globovisión's gratuitous anti-Chávez crusade is hardly a paragon of media professionalism. At a time when Clinton is condemning the Honduran coup, it rankles Chavistas that she'd promote a network that unabashedly backed a similar overthrow attempt seven years ago. Obama reached out to an often hostile Arab world by granting his first foreign media interview as President to al-Jazeera. Clinton's comments may have resonated in Venezuela and Latin America more effectively had she shared them with Telesur or other state-run Venezuelan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Honduran Crisis: Making Chums of Chávez and Obama? | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

Following earlier claims by Israeli soldiers that are similar to some of those published on Wednesday, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) in April conducted its own internal inquiry into allegations of abuse during the operation. While it said that mistakes led to civilian casualties in one or two isolated cases, the IDF concluded that there had been no instances of civilians deliberately killed by the defense force. Amnesty International and Palestinian sources say 1,400 Palestinians were killed during Operation Cast Lead, and that more than 900 of these were civilians, including 300 children and 115 women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dissident Israeli Soldiers Turn a Harsh Light on the Gaza War | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

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