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...Thursday, Crown, an imprint of Random House, announced that the former President has signed on to write a book, to be published in fall 2010, tentatively titled Decision Points. According to the publishing house, "the book will not be a conventional memoir, but instead will focus exclusively on approximate a dozen of the most interesting and important decisions in the former President's personal and political life" - including his decision to quit drinking, his reaction to 9/11, his response to Hurricane Katrina; and how he found faith. (See photos of Crawford, Texas...
...second experiment, students were asked to write a story, which would then be read by a peer and used to classify the writer's personality as Type A, B or C - A being positive, B neutral and C being decidedly negative. Type Cs were, for example, said to "sacrifice their beliefs because they seek contentment rather than challenge." Students were also asked to predict how they would feel if their peer judged them to be Type C - some participants were asked to predict based on written descriptions of all three personality types; others were not given those descriptions, but shown...
...findings aren't altogether surprising. People all over the world share similar reactions to stimuli; common evolutionary "physiological mechanisms" would explain why people, regardless of culture or belief, generally prefer "warm to cold, satiety to hunger, friends to enemies, winning to losing and so on." The authors write, "An alien who knew all the likes and dislikes of a single human being would know a great deal about the entire species...
...near those who share their preferences and personality traits." So the people we're likely to get "surrogation information" from - our neighbors and friends - are also more likely to share our likes and dislikes. "There is little disagreement among people about the sources of pleasure and pain," the authors write, "and even less disagreement among neighbors...
...offered them much, and the stuff that does come my way, I often don't find that funny. It's the hardest thing to write good comedy. And I'm not going to do a bad comedy. But I would like...