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...jury may be out on whether conservatives are less intelligent than liberals, but there's evidence that they may be physically stronger. Last year, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a fascinating paper by Aaron Sell, John Tooby and Leda Cosmides of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The authors measured the strength of 343 students using weight-lifting machines at a gym. The participating students completed questionnaires designed to measure, among other things, their proneness to anger, their history of fighting and their fondness for aggression...
...therefore an intermediate step to fiscal and political integration might be the creation of a European Monetary Fund that follows a set of fixed processes for assistance to struggling states. In the long term, however, the only feasible solution that will prevent such situations from occurring again is a stronger political union that will coordinate economic policies on a larger scale...
Putnam also noted that the generation of individuals who grew up in the aftermath of Sept. 11 appeared to be reversing this trend by forming stronger and more lasting social connections. But he tempered this optimism by pointing out that the trend is occurring along class lines—working class youth are more likely than ever to be emotionally and interpersonally isolated...
...They definitely told me that the game was going to be played at a higher level, that the guys are going to be bigger and stronger, that the level of play would be a lot faster, [and that] I’d have to make decisions quicker,” Conor explains...
Which is why unilateral Israeli military and intelligence operations could potentially be damaging to Israeli-American relations. With the peace process moribund, with Hizballah re-armed and stronger than ever and nuclear talks with Iran at a dead end, the Middle East is on the brink of a regional war that could be sparked by any number of incidents. From its air raid on a suspected nuclear facility in Syria in 2007 and the assassination of Hizballah operations chief Imad Mughniyah (which was also attributed to Mossad) in 2008 to the Dubai job, Israel - by action or by reputation...