Like his father, a Westchester Country rabbi from the American Reconstructionist movement, Mr. Nadelmann has long been attracted to novel, modern ideas.
The condor has evolved to be attracted to novel objects and activity as it must constantly scour vast landscapes for its dinner, be it dead cows, deer or, for the coastal cousins, elephant seals and beached whales.
In short, teenagers are attracted to novel and risky activities, especially with peers, at a time when they lack judgment and the ability to weigh future consequences.
Both species are feeding generalists and should therefore be expected to be attracted to novel items in a similar way (Goodwin 1976; Boarman and Heinrich 1999).
The fact that estrogen metabolism is associated with mood may provide an explanation for the recently discovered link between mood and preference of familiarity in depressive subjects, while individuals with a more hedonistic mood would be attracted by novel impressions including an affinity for more adventurous situations (de Vries et al. 2010).
Despite all the attention, pro and con, that "The Good Life" will attract as a novel supposedly centered on the destruction of the twin towers, the book's central concerns are only tangentially related to the actual events of 9/11.
"My novels attract good filmmakers, and they have from the first," Mr. McMurtry writes.
As the American novelist Roxana Robinson put it the other day in the New York Times, 'the terrestrial world is warming up [and] the literary world is cooling down... an icy chill has crept across the writer's landscape.' So the novels that attract the most attention are the novels that, positively bristling with bravura displays of technical virtuosity, remain at heart quite bereft of feeling.
Lloyds is paying a fairly high coupon of 10-11% to attract buyers to this novel security.
Therefore, when presented again, objects that had been gaze cued by a fearful face may be more novel and attract more attention compared to objects that had been accompanied by a neutral face.
