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...aversion to hurting others. I'm from a family of six boys, so I know what fighting is among siblings. What you learn is that if you're fighting with a younger sibling and you squeeze him too hard, he screams, and you stop. Dogs learn the same thing. When big dogs play with small dogs, they learn to restrain their strength. If you don't learn that, then you keep doing it, and actually you may gain benefits from that. If the screams of somebody else or the crying of somebody else don't have any effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Humans Actually Selfish? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...extensions, a common custom in these two countries. The bricks seem to be the concrete representation of a family’s hopes and dreams, and as a compilation of images they form the hopes and dreams of a country as well. Another piece, “Cosmic Thing,” created in 2002, is made up of a 1989 Volkswagen Beetle dismantled down to its individual parts and hung by metal wire from the ceiling. The pieces are organized to form a 3-D model of the car that looks as if it has leapt off the page...

Author: By Shaomin C. Chew, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "Do It Yourself" Does Empathy Well | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...Inside this very blue, mirror-lined room sit five elliptical machines/cross ramps, two treadmills, two bikes, well-organized dumbbells, an erg, and one television set in the corner. The room feels much bigger than both Lowell and Adams and had the most cardio equipment of the three. The only thing unbecoming about the Quincy House gym were the random tears in the gym's carpeting.  And that's why it tops today's list, with four stars...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer | Title: Get Your Swell On: House Gyms Part 1 | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...thing is conspicuously missing from Feingold's bill: The sponsorship of Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Leahy has proposed a different bill, which does not go as far as Feingold?s. For example, it does not place the same strict limits on National Security Letters as Feingold?s. Assistant Attorney General David Kris, chief of the Department of Justice's National Security Division, said the Administration had not fully reviewed or taken a stance on either bill. Justice officials say they're willing to discuss added protections for civil liberties and privacy, but only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Liberal Democrats Reform the Patriot Act? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

DeLay, Tom • booty of is shaken and "Wild Thing" is lip-synched and air-guitared to by, after which daughter of urges viewers to repeatedly vote for "to keep him on the show that he's enjoying so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

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