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Oxytocin may be something of a wonder compound, spurring childbirth and creating love, but it's not exactly a performance enhancer and certainly not a cure-all - not for shyness or autism, or any other social dysfunction. "The nervous system is not just oxytocin. There are many other hormones that might be just as important as oxytocin that haven't been identified yet," Carter says. "A piece of social support is oxytocin. That doesn't mean that oxytocin alone equals social support...
...Ultimately, though, human anguish gives way to understanding and compassion, and the demons that haunt Traffic from Paradise are banished by the angels of redemption that hover overhead. On the standout cut, Beat Angels, Jones' voice shines like a beacon over roiling seas as she asks, ''Don't you wonder where one goes wrong?/ Is it somewhere in a foreign rain. . ./ A man don't know what he's got in his veins/ 'Til beat angels come and take him away.'' Lifted by the unfettered emotion of such moments, this moody album spreads its wings and soars...
...autograph copies. Quite a response to a 435-page autobiography filled with explicit sex talk, nasty put-downs of such celebrities as Johnny Carson and Arsenio Hall, and rampant ethnic slurs (''How do you like those Hispanic chicks who dye their hair blond? That's an attractive look. No wonder some Spanish guys are ready to rape any white woman who comes along''.) As for Ted Danson, he's still dealing with the fallout from a rare stab at stand-up comedy. Appearing at a Friars Club roast for his lover, Whoopi Goldberg, Danson wore blackface makeup, made crude jokes...
...young lions in the townships see Mandela. They do not like Mandela's sharing even a podium with De Klerk, for to them sharing means equating, and De Klerk is the enemy. It is these young people who are restless with the snail's pace of change, who wonder why freedom must be negotiated at all. This would not be the first time the Nobel Peace Prize was premature. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho won the award in 1973, but the fighting in Vietnam continued for two more years. Gorbachev got the prize in 1990, shortly before...
...worth of clothes to Danang, but they got away from him too. The host country kept on smiling, then stole my eyeglasses. ''We smile because we are happy to see you,'' a waif of a foreign affairs officer, named Le Thi Thu Hanh, said. She flashed a wonderful advertisement for dental hygiene. Indeed, said a Taiwan businessman, ''the Vietnamese would declare another war tomorrow and immediately declare themselves the losers if they could just get the Americans back.'' Venture capitalists were all over the place, maneuvering for the lifting of the embargo. A fellow from Wyoming, name...