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FILE: 2008: Maryland Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards at a Capitol Hill
press conference.REUTERSMaryland Rep. Donna Edwards said Sunday she wasnt
ready to support a boycott of Florida over the Trayvon Martin case,
despite reported support from members of her own Congressional Black Caucus.Edwards,
a Democrat, told Fox News Sunday that she has yet to fully
examine the call to boycott, as proposed by civil rights leader the
Rev. Jesse Jackson.Jackson said after a Florida jury found neighborhood
watch volunteer George Zimmerman not guilty July 13 of all charges in
the fatal 2012 killing of Martin, a teenager, that his Rainbow PUSH
Coalition would consider a boycotting on Florida, which he characterized
as a kind of apartheid state."Edwards said that to her knowledge the
caucus has yet to formally discuss the issues and express concern about
a statewide boycott.The impact on some communities could be devastating,
Edwards said.Her comments follows three other caucus members -- Democratic
Reps. Lacy Clay, Bennie Thompson and Barbara Lee saying they would
support such a boycott."That's probably the best strategy because people
understand dollars and cents," Clay, D-Mo., said Friday, according to The
Hill newspaper. "And they understand, if there's a significant drop-off
in revenues at conventions, at Disney World and Universal Studios
that will get the attention of the powerful."
t take that at all to mean that we're
constructing reality," he told LiveScience.All in the mindAs members of
society, people create a form of collective reality. "We are all part
of a community of minds," Freeman says in the show.For example, money,
in reality, consists of pieces of paper, yet those papers represent something
much more valuable. The pieces of paper have the power of life
and death, Freeman says but they wouldn't be worth anything if people
didn't believe in their power.Money is fiction, but it's useful fiction.Another
fiction humans collectively engage in is optimism. Neuroscientist Tali Sharot
of University College London studies "the optimism bias": people's tendency
to generally overestimate the likelihood of positive events in their lives
and underestimate the likelihood of negative ones.In the show, Sharot does
an experiment in which she puts a man in a brain scanner,
and asks him to rate the likelihood that negative events, such as
lung cancer, will happen to him. Then, he is given the true
likelihood.When the actual risks differ from the man's estimates, his frontal
lobes light up. But the brain area does a better job of
reacting to the discrepancy when the reality is more positive than what
he guessed, Sharot said.This shows how humans are somewhat hardwired to
be optimistic. That may be because optimism "tends to have a lot
of positive outcomes," Sharot told LiveScience. Optimistic people tend to
live longer
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">nstrators
looking for a world audience."On the one hand, the pope is a
very respected figure in Brazil, which is of course a majority Catholic
country," he said. "On the other hand, all eyes are going to
be on Brazil, so the pope's visit would be a very attractive
platform for groups to get their messages across."For Brazil's government,
the pope's visit is seen as a test run for the country's
hosting of next year's World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympics,
which will also draw millions of visitors.In preparation, Brazilian soldiers
have invaded a swath of Rio's slums to push out drug gangs
and re-establish their authority. In large part because of slum violence,
Brazil suffers one of the world's highest homicide rates, which has doubled
in the past three decades, according to a new report.Nonetheless, a recent
visit to the slum Francis is set to enter revealed only two
police officers parked just a few meters from the chapel where he'll
pray. Journalists were warned by adolescent boys to not take pictures of
certain areas where drug peddlers were active, standard practice in slums
that have yet to be pacified.Varginha is one of Rio's smallest slums,
a triangle-shaped chunk of flat, dusty land sitting between two putrid waterways
full of raw sewage. On the third side runs a busy main
road with an elevated commuter train that noisily rolls by overhead.Brazilian
police haven't revealed how they'll secure the slum when Francis a
ing state."It's a legacy
that I embrace and that I'm not going to run away from,"
Bush told The Associated Press in an interview during a recent visit
to the affluent Dallas suburb of Frisco. "But certainly, in this campaign,
I have to identify myself and talk about my own track record."That
isn't always easy.People want to know how often he calls assorted relatives
for advice and what sleeping at the White House was like. Political
observers wonder if the Spanish-speaker who offers a unique blend of Republican
royalty and Hispanic heritage can slow what looks like Texas' inevitable
demographic slide toward a Democratic-leaning state. His mother, Columba,
is from Mexico.Jeremy Bird, who helped President Barack Obama win re-election
last year by using data analysis to tailor voter mobilization to the
most promising areas, helped tilt Nevada and Colorado to the Democrats in
the 2012 presidential race. Now, Bird and other Obama veterans are leading
Battleground Texas, a group that hopes to do the same thing in
Texas."This is something not to be taken lightly. It's a well-capitalized,
well-financed group that's intent on developing a long term strategy. That's
problematic," Bush said. "It's going to require more for candidates like
myself and people from the party to step up their game. Not
necessarily change our principles, but change our tactics."He said Republicans
will have to recruit more Spanish-speakers, campaign more frequently alon
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