Millions of tourists visit Jerusalem each year, but for some, the experience triggers overwhelming emotions - that could even land you in a hospital.

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Is there some danger of a deficit of emotions for us to find in others, so we need them generated by machines as well?

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Amid a swirl of emotions in Boston, there was cause for some celebration: Doctors announced that everyone injured in the blasts who made it to a hospital alive now seems likely to survive.

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And I think they - they hanker for, you know, some simplicity, some real basic honest human emotions, and that would sort of cover the general spirit in which I write songs.

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But for many African-American reporters, the 2008 race brought out some of the most complicated emotions of their lives.

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