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As if rescuing the big insurer AIG and prohibiting all short selling of financial stocks was not enough, now US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson proposes buying up (with taxpayers’ money) the distressed assets of the financial sector.

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And when I first learned about endangered species, I was truly distressed to know that every day, animals were being wiped off the face of this Earth forever.

We're going overseas and bringing back pictures like this: of the utterly distressed or the displaced or the hungry or the child laborers or the exotic.

Actually, the way to study empathy in human children is to instruct a family member to act distressed, and then to see what young children do.

This is also actually how we measure empathy in young children, by looking at how they respond to distressed individuals.

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