When I attend international gatherings, I am amazed how easily and naturally Indians and Pakistanis gravitate toward each other.

It could also help lessen the tendency of some governments to gravitate ever closer towards the booming Chinese economy.

Economies gravitate naturally to a full employment equilibrium, and, after a shock, do so fairly quickly if not impeded by misguided government action.

The new classical economics, as it became known, taught that, in the absence of egregious government interference, economies would gravitate naturally to full employment, greater innovation, and higher growth rates.

However, seats in parliament, not percentages of the vote are what matters, owing to Britain s winner take all electoral system based on single member constituencies, which encourages political parties to gravitate to the center.

One of my favorite is that people named Dennis are disproportionately likely to become dentists, people named Lawrence become lawyers, because unconsciously we gravitate toward things that sound familiar, which is why I named my daughter President of the United States Brooks.