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When a hired hand brought in some skeletal remains unearthed on their okra farm in Archer, Fla., Ron and Pat Love asked a scientist friend to identify them. Horse bones, he said, good for nothing more than paperweights. Dissatisfied, the Loves sought a second opinion from Paleontologist S. David Webb of the Florida State Museum in Gainesville. Webb quickly determined that the bones had come not from a horse but from a short-legged rhinoceros called Teleoceras. It was a creature that had lumbered across that area of Florida millions of years...
Sociologist Dane Archer calls reading such signals "social intelligence," but the phrase's greatest usefulness was probably in completing the title of his book How to Expand Your Social Intelligence Quotient. Urged Archer: "We must unshackle ourselves from the tendency to ignore silent behavior and to prefer words over everything else." The evidence all over is that while people meander the earth through thickets of verbiage (theirs and others), many, perhaps most, do pay more attention to wordless signals and are more likely to be influenced and governed by nonverbal messages...
Cortland added insurance and what turned out to be the game-winning goal at 10:29 of the second half. After a lot of scrambling and several missed opportunities on an open net, wing Cydney Archer slid the ball over the line from just two feet out for a 2-0 advantage...
...Archer maintains that most people can improve their S.I. simply by staying alert to subtle clues, just as a criminal learns to spot a plainclothesman by some quirk of manner or dress, or a basketball star tells a head fake from a real jump shot by some giveaway preliminary movement. He even has a solution to the age-old problem of how to choose the quickest line at a fast-food restaurant: go for the one with the most young adults wearing backpacks; they generally turn out to be students or bicycle riders ordering only for themselves...
...have risen to the top of prison society solely on the basis of physical prowess. Discipline is maintained through beatings, buggery and other less colorful forms of brutality. In Scum, alas, no redeemer appears to offer even brief hope of change. The only appealing character is an individualist named Archer (Mick Ford), whose rebelliousness is of a highly personal sort. He is a vegetarian and an atheist whose insistence on special treatment throws sand into the system, but not the monkey wrench that would bring it to a halt. There is also a hard case named Carlin (Ray Winstone), whose...