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LOVE Some species of rodents, such as the prairie vole, form long pair bonds with their mates, as human beings do. Others, such as the montane vole, have only transitory liaisons, as do chimpanzees. The difference, according to Tom Insel and Larry Young at Emory University in Atlanta, lies in the promoter upstream of the oxytocin-and vasopressin-receptor genes. The insertion of an extra chunk of DNA text, usually about 460 letters long, into the promoter makes the animal more likely to bond with its mate. The extra text does not create love, but perhaps it creates the possibility...
...would get a chance to vote on it. First, they got a chance to sound off. "This American-style remuneration has no place in this country, and if you don't revise this package you will have set a very dangerous precedent," shareholder Victor Silk told HSBC chairman John Bond. But in the end, Aldinger carried off his saucer of cream with relative ease. Bond's argument that Aldinger would be getting slightly less than his previous pay package was grudgingly accepted by the majority of shareholders, and institutional investors voted heavily in his favor. And so Aldinger...
...workers and those in the beleaguered tech industry who are taking their lumps. Steve Doppelt, 36, is an advertising creative director in New York City. With his employer, Publicis Groupe, in the throes of a major shake-up, Doppelt last month left to take a similar job at Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners--for 10% less pay. O.K., he isn't starving. The new job pays more than $200,000 a year, and Doppelt is regarded as a rising star. But he no longer has a secretary, and he is working in a cubicle instead of an office and is investing less...
...method used by youths to construct human relationships has changed," says Takehiko Kikkawa, a psychiatry professor at Chubu Gakuin University?even in cases where the relationship is necessarily short-lived. Some victims never even meet face to face until the fateful day. Nevertheless, they all share a powerful bond: the fear of dying alone...
Police released Longo and Boutwell on $100 cash bond...