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Over the past two decades, France has made major efforts to modernize its economy and change the attitudes of its workforce in order to make the nation more market-friendly and competitive in the age of globalization. But the one place where these changes to France Inc. have failed to take root is the boardrooms of the biggest companies, which in many ways remain the same smoke-filled old-boys clubs they were 50 years...
...includes new editions of classics like Anna Karenina. Except for a few recent breakouts - Roberto Bolaņo, Stieg Larsson, Per Petterson - translated authors tend to deliver anemic sales, which makes mainstream American publishers loath to gamble on them. And Bolaņo and Larsson were dead (both prematurely, at the age of 50) by the time their books hit big in the States. This is not a great incentive to break into the marketplace...
...advantages, not surprisingly, were more profound for African Americans, who are more likely to develop high blood pressure and may be more sensitive to the hypertensive effects of salt than other ethnic groups, and for the elderly, since blood vessels stiffen with age, which can lead to higher blood pressure...
Dudes masturbate more than girls? Who would have thought? Apparently, this universally acknowledged truth (at least, we assumed, among most humans over the age of 12) is news at Princeton...
...reason for the rise is that more men are marrying women who make more money than they do, mainly because there are more high-income women to go around. In 1970, just 4% of men ages 30 to 44 had wives who brought in more bacon than they did. By 2007, more than a fifth (22%) of men in that age bracket had wives who outearned them. Members of this thriving demographic are effectively doubling their income or more when they wed, without doubling their costs. (See pictures of famous couples...