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Blog： Pleasure zones

Experts already know that the striatum becomes activated by receiving compliments and the orbitofrontal cortex is activated by attractive faces and smiling.
Lead researcher Dr Graham Murray said: “Sociability and emotional warmth are very complex features of our personality.
“This research helps us understand at a biological level why people differ in the degrees to which we express those traits.
“It’s interesting that the degree to which we find social interaction rewarding relates to the structure of our brains in regions that are important for very simple biological drives such as food, sweet liquids and sex.
“Perhaps this gives us a clue to how complex features like sentimentality and affection evolved from structures that in lower animals originally were only important for basic biological survival processes.”
Professor Simon Baron Cohen, of the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge, said: “This is an important study in showing that the degree to which we find socializing rewarding is correlated with differences in brain structure.
“It reminds us that for some people, socializing is an intrinsic reward, just like chocolate or cannabis. And that what you find rewarding depends on differences in the brain.
“This research teaches us about individual differences in a typical sample, but has implications for our understanding of clinical conditions like autism, where socializing may be less rewarding.”

Blog：Folic acid ‘cuts Down’s risk’

Taking folic acid before pregnancy could reduce the risk of the baby having Down’s syndrome, researchers have suggested.
It has been known for some time that folic acid, found in foods such as broccoli or in supplements, protected against neural-tube defects.
Researchers have now shown that children born to families with a high risk of neural-tube defects could also be at an increased risk of Down’s syndrome and vice versa, suggesting there is a link between the two conditions.
They suggest a dose of five milligrams of folic acid could reduce the risk of Down’s syndrome as well as cutting the likelihood of a baby having a neural-tube defect (NTD).
NTDs are the abnormal development of the neural tube, which becomes the brain or spinal cord, in early pregnancy.
Anencephaly, the partial or complete absence of the brain, and spina bifida are the most severe NTDs, causing serious physical and mental impairment.
Problems in metabolising folic acid have been seen in mothers of babies with NTDs.
It has also been suggested it could be a risk factor for trisomy 21, the chromosomal abnormality which causes Down’s syndrome

Godfathers

Then there are the questions over how much authority Mr Abhisit will really wield over his government, and even his party.
His may be the fresh new face, but behind him the wheeling and dealing for the Democrats is done by veteran party godfathers, in particular Secretary General Suthep Thaugsuban, a politician whose public image is far removed from the squeaky clean Mr Abhisit.
It was Mr Suthep who did all the hard bargaining to win over defecting factions from the Thaksin camp.
The potential instability of Mr Abhisit’s coalition will also make it hard for him to drive through effective policies, at a time when the country is crying out for them.
His margin of victory in parliament was 37 votes, out of a total of 436; that could shrink after by-elections in January for the 29 MPs banned in November’s court ruling against the former government.
It is narrow enough for his coalition partners to be able to exert a lot of influence, should they disagree with Mr Abhisit’s policies.
So expectations of this new government are low. Just lasting more than a year would be an achievement.
But if Mr Abhisit can bring about a return to something like normal government, and an end to turmoil on the streets, he may yet earn the gratitude of a politically exhausted population.

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‘ Blog：Double dealing’

However, when asked by the BBC if Mr Brown had told him that he did not want Megrahi to die in a Scottish prison, Mr Rammell replied: No, I’ve not dicsussed this with the prime minister either before the event or after.
“I was responding to a specific concern that the Libyans put to me that they didn’t wish Al Megrahi to die in prison.
“In response to that in a conversation with my counterpart, I made clear that we were not actively seeking his death in prison but we emphatically, and this is what I said to him at the time, we emphatically would not intervene and it was a matter for Scottish ministers.”
Conservative Leader David Cameron said the UK Government now stood accused of “double dealing”, and called for an inquiry.
He said: “The British prime minister has got to be straight with the British people. For weeks he’s been refusing to say publicly what he wanted to happen to Megrahi, yet we now learn apparently privately the message was being given to the Libyans that he should be released.”
Other letters now made public by the UK and Scottish governments reveal UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw changed his mind about excluding the Lockerbie bomber from a proposed prisoner transfer agreement with Libya.
In a letter to Scottish ministers in September 2007, Mr Straw initially agreed it should not include anyone connected with the bombing.
But three months later he said it was in the “wider” UK interests that the agreement take a “standard form” – with no exclusion.
In a further letter to Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, on 11 February 2008, Mr Straw said Libya had become an “important partner in the fight against terrorism” and was helping to counter illegal immigration.

Blog：US plans permanent base on Moon

US space agency Nasa has said it plans to start work on a permanently-occupied base on the Moon after astronauts begin flying back there in 2020.
The base is likely to be built on one of the Moon’s poles and will serve as a science centre and possible stepping stone for manned missions to Mars.
The US has already said it plans to build a new lunar spacecraft to succeed the last Apollo mission in 1972.
Funds will be moved from space shuttle flights, due to be scrapped in 2010.
The structure of the base and the exact duties of the astronauts stationed there have not been decided.
Nor is it clear when the base will begin functioning.

Blog：Iraq and Syria at talks in Turkey

The foreign ministers of Iraq and Syria have met for talks in Turkey to defuse tensions following a diplomatic row.
The neighbours recalled their envoys last month after a series of bomb attacks in Baghdad that killed nearly 100 people.
Iraq alleged that Syria was harbouring the attacks’ masterminds.
Turkey has been acting as broker between the two, who only revived diplomatic links in 2006 after more than 20 years of mutual hostility.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said there was “determination to co-operate in uncovering all facts behind these barbarian attacks against the Iraqi government and people”.
Near-simultaneous bomb attacks struck the finance, foreign and defence ministries in the heart of Baghdad on 19 August 2009.
Baghdad summoned its envoy home after airing a taped confession that linked two Syria-based Iraqi Baathists to the bombing campaign. Damascus followed suit.
Syria is ruled by a rival branch of the Baath party, which was overthrown in Iraq by the US-led invasion and subsequently banned.
Hundreds of former Baathists are thought to have taken refuge in Syria since the 2003 collapse of Saddam Hussein’s government.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has alleged that 90% of foreign “terrorists” who infiltrate Iraq do so via Syria and has asked the United Nations to investigate the bombings.
Iraq says it has evidence that groups based in Syria orchestrated the bombings in Baghdad, a claim Damascus has dismissed.

Blog： Timeless themes

Indeed, regeneration, spiritual and otherwise, seems to be the new buzzword driving the Western gaze on India
While films like Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet, being presented by Danny Boyle, and Paul Schrader’s Extreme City, to be produced by Bollywood director Anubhav Sinha, inspired no doubt by Slumdog Millionaire, are reportedly in the works, the focus has shifted to more timeless aspects of India.
Last year, Australian documentary filmmaker made Yes, Madam Sir, a film about India’s first woman police officer Kiran Bedi and her eventful career.
In 2005, Dutch-born French filmmaker Jan Kounen came up with Darshan – The Embrace, which extolled the healing power of touch as demonstrated by Kerala-based spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi, known to her followers around the world as Amma.
In 2006, veteran French director Benoit Jacquot’s L’Untouchable told the fictional story of a young Paris actress who learns that her father is a low-caste Hindu.
She travels to India in quest of her identity. Jacquot imparts an edgy, docu-style frisson to the narrative that records the girl’s life-altering encounters with the teeming country.
Twenty years ago, French filmmaker Alain Corneau, a lifelong Indophile, had made Nocturne Indien, the story of a man who comes to India ostensibly in search of a lost friend.
But his quest and the outcome of his voyage assumes dimensions well beyond the mere personal and physical.
These films, as well as those that are on the way, owe much of their inspiration to masters like Roberto Rossellini (’India: Matri Bhumi’, 1959) and Louis Malle (’Phantom India’ and ‘Calcutta’, 1969) whose long documentaries about India rank among the greatest films ever made.
With the culturally condescending, poverty-fixated, cliché-ridden Western vision of a populous nation of a million contradictions undergoing marked dilution, a new India is beginning to emerge in the cinema of the world.

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