Word: virtuous
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...objective and keeping it in focus. When that goal is, say, finishing a term paper, they outperform other people at ignoring distracting options like going to a movie. When that goal is eating well, they're better at resisting distractions like ice cream and pizza. But when a virtuous choice is actually made available, the goal may feel fulfilled even when it hasn't been. Once they have that illusion that they?ve satisfied their healthy-eating goal, they give themselves permission to indulge. "They fail to activate their real goal-fulfillment reaction in response to the threat," says Wilcox...
...Jerusalem Rewriting History? An Israeli biblical scholar claims that the Essenes, the 1st century Jewish community commonly believed to have written the Dead Sea Scrolls, may never have existed. Rachel Elior contends that the story of the virtuous Essenes was fabricated by a former priest as a "rebuttal to anti-Semitic literature" of the time. The scrolls, she says, may have been written by members of a priestly caste banished from Jerusalem in the 2nd century...
...There are serious moral arguments, both secular and religious. There are those who believe - with some good reason - that the accretion of legalized vices is debilitating, that we are a less virtuous society since gambling spilled out from Las Vegas to "riverboats" and state lotteries across the country. There is a medical argument, though not a very convincing one: alcohol is more dangerous in a variety of ways, including the tendency of some drunks to get violent. One could argue that the abuse of McDonald's has a greater potential health-care cost than the abuse of marijuana. (Although...
...actively seeking a dialogue with the oppressed in Cuba, the Chilean government will be breaking the virtuous example of the Pope, as well as the presidents of Portugal and Spain who have all recognized and met with opposition leaders in the past. Recently, there has been a deplorable wave of political suppression in Cuba. The state has continued to silence people that they have labeled “counterrevolutionary dissidents”—people that Chile and the United States would call productive citizens. When President Bachelet visited Cuba, she put Chile’s reputation at risk...
...Tuesday, Capitol Hill played host to the historic Inauguration of President Barack Obama, with virtuous talk of bipartisanship, common good and putting aside "childish things" in promising the dawn of a new era in Washington. Less than 24 hours later, it was clear how little had actually changed, as Senators from both parties expressed growing frustration with Obama's top legislative priority, the $825 billon stimulus plan meant to jump-start the nation's ailing economy. (See pictures of President Obama's Inauguration...