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A New Yorker shows courage and wisdom in breaking up a subway fight. Watch this...
Charles Sonder, a 24-year-old architect, could teach non-violent clases by judging from his skillful intervention in a recent subway fight. He simply stood between the two warring parties, eating his chips and gumi-bears, without saying a word. This created the physical separation that was needed to cool tempers. Mr. Sonder is a real-world bodhisattva. Read the NYTimes article on this story.
Science now supports something we knew all along: many with the most homophobic views are attracted to the same-sex
"Individuals who identify as straight but in psychological tests show a strong attraction to the same sex may be threatened by gays and lesbians because homosexuals remind them of similar tendencies within themselves," explains Netta Weinstein, a lecturer at the University of Essex and the study's lead author."In many cases these are people who are at war with themselves and they are turning this internal conflict outward," adds co-author Richard Ryan, professor of psychology at the University of Rochester who helped direct the research.
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