European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Sofr Foft june 2007 study donations make brain Happy by Robert Mitchum Chicago Tribune Chicago that Good feeling you get by writing a Check to your favorite Charity could be your brain patting itself on the reporting in fridays Issue of the journal a team of economists and psychologists at the University of Oregon have found that donating Money to Charity activates regions of the brain associated with the study represents a major Advance in the Young Field Ofney a collaboration be tween economists and psychologists to determine How the brain directs the Way people handle economic models would Sug Gest Only Bill Gates or Warren Buffett should be making Contri and everyone else should just said one of the a economics professor will Iam but that Doest happen theres High Par where even Lowin come people Are giving away a portion of their the apparent reason is that giving to others produces a warm As Harbaugh described people feel Good knowing that there a charitable brain imaging technologies such As functional magnetic Reso Nance or which uses magnetic Waves to Monitor acute changes in brain May allow economists to uncover answers about human behaviour and motivation that were previously As an i was fascinated that one can actually look inside a persons brain and see them make economic said once i heard it was possible there was no Way i could Stop myself from doing this in the female College Stu dents were Given then told either that a mandatory Transfer of Money would go from their account to a local food Bank or that they could make a voluntary Dona Tion to the same at the end of the the women were allowed to keep the remainder of the using the investigators found that both mandatory and voluntary transfers increased activity in brain areas called the nucleus acc Bens and the caudate Uncle these areas have previously been associated with the brains response to rewarding such As taking Street drugs or viewing pictures of loved the Reward reaction was More intense with the voluntary which the authors argue supports the notion of a warm glow Phe its mysterious that human be Ings among All mammals Are so hype social that our brains Are wired to help other even said Paul director of the Center for Neu Roeco comics studies at Claremont graduate court backs political limits on Union dues Washington in a setback for organized the supreme court ruled thursday that states can bar Public employee unions from using compulsory dues for political purposes unless individuals give their explicit the 90 ruling opens the door for states to pass Laws restricting use of Union 12 million workers in publican private sector jobs Are required to pay dues or fees to a Union even if they elect not to and the National right to work committee and other opponents of unions have fought these forced dues As unfair and at Issue before the court was a Washington state Law that said unions could not collect fees from a nonmember and spend this Money on poli tics unless affirmatively authorized by the the states largest teachers Union challenged this Rule in and the washing ton supreme court struck Down the judge in Smith Case retires after marijuana bust fort a judge who briefly heard arguments in cases after Anna Nicole Smiths death has announced his retire not Long after he pleaded not guilty to smoking marijuana in a City circuit judge Lawrence Korda has been on voluntary paid leave since receiving the marijuana Possession citation in he will for Mally leave the Bench july kordas Mike told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on thursday that Korda has been contemplating retirement for a few but that recent events have factored into his decision to retire three Mother found shot to death three children and their Mother were found shot to death thursday in a sport Utility vehicle parked just off a High and the father was talking to authorities Christopher who was found with a gunshot wound to the was treated at a authorities Vaughn was not a suspect and not under arrest thursday Hes being talked said Illinois state police Carl Dobrich Hes free to he has not asked to Hes answering questions and Hes assisting us police believe nobody else was involved in the Dobrich from wire reports Clinton disclose millions in income million amount former president Clinton earned last year from giving speeches John Edwards speech income million Rudy Giuliani speech income the associated press Washington former president Clinton travelled the Globe last making More than million giving speeches at corporate Trade group gatherings and motivational the speaking engagements and their to Dollar fees were de tailed in Hillary Rodham Clinton Senate financial disclosure made Public thurs the report showed that the former president and his presi Dency seeking wife had assets of at least million and might have As much As million with no the Clinton liquidated a Blind Trust valued at million to million in april after learning that it included such in vestments As Oil and drug com military contractors and said Campaign spokesman Phil confirm ing published when it comes to family a flu the reports show that the new York senator is the wealthiest of All members of Congress seeking the among All presidential How Republican Mitt the former Massachusetts Gover stands alone with assets of Between million and Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat John Edwards have each reported assets of about the reports thursday represent a second wave of financial disclosures by presidential can most already filed last month with the Federal election commission and the office of government among the leading Arizona John Mccain and Romney received extensions because the office of government ethics wants them to open up their Blind Clinton speech while is hardly unusual among in a financial disclosure report filed last reported Gross ing million for speeches last Edwards said he made in paid top Georgia court to hear teen sex Case the associated press Atlanta georgias supreme court agreed thursday to hear the states arguments for keeping in prison a Man who had consensual sex with a 15yearold girl when he was the attorney Gener Al later said his release could open the floodgates for hundreds of incarcerated child molesters looking for a Way attorney general Thurbert Baker has caught heat for appealing a state judges decision to void Genar Low Wilsons 10year sentence but said at a news con Ference thursday that he has no Choice under the the state Superior court had no authority to re Duce or modify the trial courts he Baker called the sentence harsh but added it looms much larger than just this Gen Arlow Wilson and we have to keep that in the state has already received one petition on be half of another inmate because of the state judges he the supreme court said it would hear the Case in now has served More than 28 months in a 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