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WASHINGTON: Call it Rogaine without the greasy mess. Scientists at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. told the FDA today they can regrow hair on a barren pate ? with a pill...
Pinker has little patience with critics, particularly Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who accuses evolutionary psychologists in general (and presumably Pinker as well) of indulging a "penchant for narrow and often barren speculation" and "pure guesswork in the cocktail-party mode." Pinker has even less patience with those who would confuse an evolutionary explanation for how the human mind evolved with the idea that our fate is genetically predetermined. Genes, he says, "do not dictate what we should accept or how we should live...
...hermit state to the edge of famine. Now the unending drought and extraordinary heat of 1997 have brought the real thing. Cornfields--at least the ones outsiders can see--are filled with stunted, shriveled plants. Paddy fields that should be blooming are sere and brown. Land normally planted lies barren; hillsides have been stripped of anything edible...
...while the men must be on their best behavior, the school is warning the ladies not to expect a cake walk. Banned are lipstick, jewelry and ? sorry guys ? dating upperclassmen. The women must also live in the same barren dorm rooms and sport the same stuffy drill uniforms as men. Despite the rigid conditions, VMI wasn't beyond a little generosity. As the women arrived on campus today, each received a stylish buzz cut on the house...
...solar system; inasmuch as no one protested, he began selling it. So far, he has sold around 13,000 parcels on the moon and more than 1,000 on Mars. "It's a great investment for future generations," he says. Does Hope have plans to develop the apparently barren property? "Personally, no. But on the moon, I've had 25 companies purchase different licenses to provide things like telecommunications, water and power...