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| http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/sunday-review/compassion-fatigue.html

Becoming Compassionately Numb

By Benedict Carey

After all, a lowering tide grounds a lot of rescue boats, literally and psychologically. Yet psychologists and primatologists have been arguing for years that compassion is an evolved instinct, rooted in the brain's circuitry. In a new book, [read full story]

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