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...stopping gays on the highway, but a gay who comes anywhere near the Richard Simmons profile still carries an added burden in the workplace. At its worst, gaydar is deadly. At the Army base in Kentucky where Private First Class Barry Winchell was beaten to death with a baseball bat last July 5, he hadn't told that he was gay, in strict compliance with regulations. It was gaydar that tracked him down...
Some animals, besides being non-zero-sum games, are good at playing them. Vampire bats returning from a successful blood-sucking expedition share the proceeds with bat buddies that had a tougher night on the parasitism front. Since these magnanimous bats will someday be needy themselves, this reciprocal altruism is a win-win game. Natural selection favored animals good at win-win gamesmanship...
...came out sluggish against Providence, so it was great to turn it up right off the bat," Stone said. "Northeastern is good and our kids understood that they were not going to back down once they fell behind. We outworked them today...
First, we are extremely politically apathetic. Many of us did not even bat an eyelash when we exercised our democratic right by voting for the Undergraduate Council president last month. We clicked a few arrows to register our choices with the same disinterest with which we renew our library books. The election came and went, without an effective debate among students about campus-wide initiatives, structural changes or reform...
...this right. Large-scale machinery, he holds, concentrates wealth in the hands of one man who tyrannizes the rest. He favors the small machine; he seeks to keep the individual in control of his tools, to maintain an interdependent love relation between the two, as a cricketer with his bat or Krishna with his flute. Above all, he seeks to liberate the individual from his alienation to the machine and restore morality to the productive process...