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...SPRAY-ON TRUST-ME HORMONE...
...study of 200 students playing a game with real money, researchers found that the hormone oxytocin, applied as a nasal spray, increased a student's willingness to trust another player. While the finding may offer another clue to understanding social phobias--or even autism--the half-life of the spray is too short for use by used-car salesmen...
Three new summer movies aimed at kids also exile their heroes from familiar homes into perilous fantasy worlds. But they don't wag a warning finger; they beckon their littlest viewers to be independent, make friends, trust the dreamy inner child. They make their points in different but familiar ways. Madagascar, from the DreamWorks team, is a Shrek-like anthropomorphic sitcom. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D is a wish-fulfillment parable with video-game visuals and pacing. Howl's Moving Castle is less keyed on stoking fear for its heroine's isolation than on engendering...
From the Flats in West L.A. to the suburbs of Chicago and Boston, any block with smallish homes near desirable workplaces, good schools and popular stores and entertainment is red meat for carnivorous builders. The National Trust for Historic Preservation in a 2002 report documented more than 200 historically significant communities in 20 states where teardowns were prevalent. In the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale, the report said, an astonishing 1,200 homes (20% of the supply) had been demolished since 1986. The trend has intensified since then. Nationally, as many as 75,000 of the single-family houses built last...
...officially released from active duty but out on a pass from Fort Sill that weekend, gave a graphic speech on the horrors of duty in Iraq and his struggle to survive, then launched into a tirade about the waste of U.S. resources he saw up close. "Let's trust the President-about as far as we can throw him," he said bitterly...