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…, if they waited for his return, he would bring them more marshmallows. Mischel took out his stopwatch and recorded how long each child waited before ringing the bell. Some children rang the bell almost immediately, leaving Mischel no time to leave the room. Others waited. This...

Article 6. The Diplomat Getting to the Endgame With Iran Robert Dreyfuss February 6, 2013 -- Why did it take so long to secure a date for talks between Iran and the P5+1? After all, in the weeks before the presidential election in November, it was reported that the United St...

…l camp have a shimmering and expensive unreality, one that American domestic sentiment would be unlikely to support for long and that jostles against our experience of recent years. Are more aircraft carriers, overseas bases and jet fighters really the cure for the dangers we fac...

…ch as PET scans and func- tional M.R.I.s—that can track brain changes as they happen. These advances in brain imaging, along with an increased understanding of neurochemicals, have transformed a vague and mysterious no- tion into a tangible effect that scientists consider worthy...

…advantages still faced by many Arab citizens, and the difficulty in resolving those problems calmly and collectively as long as Israel remained in a state of war with its Arab neighbors. For Labor and the political left, it was as if, despite Arafat’s repeated rejections of ever...

…ealize there are other aspects that are not as militant and not as aggressive and that’s fine. If you look back at the long history of the Judeo-Christian West struggle against Islam, I believe that our forefathers kept their stance, and I think they did the right thing. I think...

…n, I assured him I was not giving up altogether on the prospects for peace. Not only did I feel that would be wrong, as long as there was a scintilla of hope. I believed that our continued diplomatic engagement might provide a counterweight to any moves by Arafat to revert to vio...

…odward, who helped bring Nixon down —and who himself became a figure of unchallengeable presidential mythmaking—wrote a long shelf of books in which even the most misguided presidential actions seemed part of an epochal march of ultimate responsibility and life-and-death decision...

…sociation) as well as National Geographic for staffing referrals, and now have a strong short list. This is a critical, long- term position. * We are assessing graphics and animation companies and researching styles and graphic ideas that we might use to communicate some of the...

…med at destroying the PLO’s military capacity in the border area. We also said that we wouldn’t attack Syrian forces as long as they didn’t attack us. That last public pledge had particular relevance to my role on the ground. I was deputy commander of the largest of Israel’s thr...

… scientists writing about thought are linguists or psychologists. If you are a dyslexic engineer like me, language is a long way down the processing chain. I think abstractly and then translate those thoughts into words. Some ideas don’t map between languages and often, one langu...

…ort-term consequences of constitutionalizing the abortion issue were powerful and positive for the choice movement. The long-term consequences were disastrous. Roe v. Wade provided the Religious Right and the conservative wing of the Republican Party one of the best organizing to...

…culty of finding a parking place in front of a “house with no driveway.” Unlike most theoretical physicists, Frank has long had a keen interest in Al, as witnessed in these three “Observations”’: 1. “Francis Crick called it ‘the Astonishing Hypothesis’: that consciousness, also...

… the things that follow. My body is designed to lift heavy objects and throw them, and that’s it. I ignored this for a long time. I tried swimming and looked like a drowning monkey. I tried basketball and looked like a caveman. Then I became a fighter and took off. It is far mo...

…n me after I joined the unit. He turned to Avraham, laughed, and said: “Are we taking high school kids now?” But before long, I was a “high school kid” no longer. Meir Har-Zion rarely took a direct part in our exercises. On his final Company A mission, a month before the 1956 wa...