1. As predicted, the drug increased the transmission of GABA, significantly reducing the rodents aversive reactions.

2. He added that the mutant mice lacked innate responses to ‘aversive odorants‘ – the smell of fear – even though they were capable of detecting–them.

3. Keith Bradsher, in a New York Times article, 2 Big Appetites Take Seats at the Oil Table, observes÷ "As Chinese and Indian companies venture into countries like Sudan, where risk–aversive multinationals have hesitated to enter, questions are being raised in the industry about whether state–owned companies are accurately judging the risks to their own investments, or whether they are just more willing to gamble with taxpayers money than multinationals are willing to gamble with shareholders investments." The geopolitical implications of this tolerance for instability are borne out in Sudan, where Chinese state–owned companies exploited oil in the thick of fighting.