In the Bible, Jeremiah 31:15 and Matthew 2:18 both tell the same story: "A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, Refusing to be comforted for her children, Because they are no more."
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Anne and I have just come back from a month-long driving trip to my home state of Texas, and I have never been so terrified in my life. From what we experienced in Texas, the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords today in Arizona doesn’t surprise me at all. The atmosphere was completely different from the way it was when we lived there between 1994 and 2005, and light years from what it was when I grew up there.
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What makes people violent?especially males? Scents that trigger aggression between have been identified in mice?does the same thing happen with humans?
BBC News reports that researchers have found that mice excrete two chemicals in their urine which make them want to fight.
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Watching media violence significantly increases the risk that a viewer or video game player will behave aggressively in both the short and long term.
Researcher L. Rowell Huesmann looked at more than half a century of research on the impact of exposure to violence in television, movies, video games and on the Internet. He says, “The research clearly shows that exposure to virtual violence increases the risk that both children and adults will behave aggressively.”
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