Not long afterward, Jacobson opened a package sent to him by mistake from a supplier in Hong Kong. Inside he found a set of the anti-tamper seals for the game-piece envelopes—the only thing he needed to steal game pieces en route to the factory. “I would go into the men’s room ...
Without the attachment of romantic love, we would live in an entirely different society that more closely resembled some (but not all) of those social circles in the animal world. The chemicals that race around in our brain when we're in love serve several purposes, and the primary goal ...
The message was simple: God protects those who would die in his name. Most martyrs don't benefit from such divine intervention. Still, the idea soon emerged among the Jews that dying in the name of God would yield rewards in the afterlife [source: Barlow]. In the face of religious ...
"I thought that that was wrong, that they got me out and not Paul,” Reed said, choking up. "I knew that as soon as I was able to, that I would fight for him to get out and that I would do everything I could to get him outta there." Reed said he also feared for the ...
- That's fine. I appreciate when they put a little extra in there, though. Because didn't Game of Thrones go to new areas? So you almost got a nod of where you were going in the show. - Yeah, that's true. - That would make me not skip. ...
Not to rain on your parade, but there’s a good chance when you die you’re going to end up in Hell. This isn’t a judgment on you or anything - it's merely ...
In Wollstonecraft's time, chastity and virtue were com- monly equated when it came to women and so this kind of reaction to an "immodest" woman would not have been sur- prising. Wollstonecraft, however, argued that chastity and virtue were two different things. In her novel "Maria: or,...
When I first began studying Rumi with my father in late 2014, years after that psychiatric hospitalization, properly diagnosed and medicated for bipolar disorder and in recovery, I never expected that within a few short years my extended family in Iran would be barred from visiting us in the ...
Have you ever said in frustration, “It’s so hard to lose weight; I hardly eat anything!”? I know how you feel. I struggled with being overweight from the age of 10—pretty much all my life. It took me 50 years to finally make sense of the confusion around dieting and weight los...
that natural infection may not imply immunity, leaving some to question how effective a vaccine will be, even assuming one can be found. And it must be safe. If the global population is to be immunized, lethal complications in just one person in a thousand would imply the death of ...