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...dramatic, but given the physical presence of a moral faculty in the brain, it need not take an iron projectile to reshape one's ethics. How about a virus? A birth injury? A genetic defect? It is quite possible that some of history's greatest villains harbored an unseen wound much like Gage's in the prefrontal cortex. Such may be the condition of all psychopaths. This is not to say that experience has no relevance to character. Abuse during childhood, experience of all sorts is inscribed on the brain. But childhood traumas have never fully explained the psychopath, says...
...what of Dali's own clockwork? What wound him up? This is the theme of "Salvador Dali: The Early Years," an exhibition opening this week at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The curators, Ana Beristain and Dawn Ades, have brought together a mass of Dali's juvenilia, starting at age 12; the show ends in 1929, with Dali in Paris, moving through storms of controversy, the 25-year-old darling of both Left and Right Banks. By rights this show ought to contain the "classics" of Dali's early achievement -- paintings from 1929 like The Lugubrious Game...
...their employees workman's compensation and disability insurance, but of course it is easy to see how this is work-related. A few employers help pay for workers' life insurance, but other sorts of insurance--car, title homeowners--have never been the business of the boss. Health insurance only wound up as part of most American's work benefits because of a fluke of bureaucracy...
...aimed at image building: persuading foreign leaders that Clinton was more at home with the issues than their diplomats and intelligence services were telling them. Flying home Wednesday, the atmosphere aboard Air Force One was one of fulfillment. The Clintons and their aides believed they ! had just wound up one of their best weeks in months...
Still, the bug is so virulent and so fast moving when it does strike that it cannot be taken lightly. It is passed by human-to-human contact, and its favorite route of infection is through an open wound. Within 24 hours the patient develops flulike symptoms, including fever and chills. Over the next day or two, these conditions worsen; a rash may develop as well...