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...party action on a conference call last Thursday. To ease negotiations within their caucuses, leaders of both parties in the House and the Senate asked the President not to talk specifics when he rolled out the package the next day. And the President and his aides complied, offering only broad stroke outlines of the package as the White House press corps grilled them with question after question. Pelosi says she expects to pass the stimulus package sometime before Congress breaks for the Presidents' Day holidays later in February...
Less surprising than the importance of the way a partner smells is the way that partner looks and sounds. Humans are suckers for an attractive face and a sexy shape. Men see ample breasts and broad hips as indicators of a woman's ability to bear and nurse children--though most don't think about such matters so lucidly. Women see a broad chest and shoulders as a sign of someone who can clobber a steady supply of meat and keep lions away from the cave. And while a hairy chest and a full beard have fallen out of favor...
...volunteers listen to recordings of men's and women's voices and then rate the way they sound on a scale from "very unattractive" to "very attractive." On the whole, the people whose voices scored high on attractiveness also had physical features considered sexually appealing, such as broad shoulders in men and a low waist-to-hip ratio in women. This suggests either that an alluring voice is part of a suite of sexual qualities that come bundled together or that simply knowing you look appealing encourages you to develop a voice to match. Causation and mere correlation often...
...talk about during the great Analog Darkness of 2009? The current Core curriculum that occupies approximately one quarter of every Harvard undergraduate’s course-load exists because, in the words of the 2007-8 Courses of Instruction, “every Harvard graduate should be broadly educated, as well as trained in a particular academic specialty or concentration.” This seems to bode well for the incipient conversational Dark Ages. But wait! This broad education “does not define intellectual breadth as the mastery of a set of Great Books, or the digestion...
...approach, focusing on such measures as assistance to unemployed workers and weatherizing homes. Hillary Clinton unveiled a detailed proposal shortly after her New Hampshire primary victory that showed off her economic expertise by putting more emphasis on the mortgage-lending crisis. And Barack Obama's solution was the most broad-based of the three, relying heavily on tax cuts and rebates to try to jump-start the economy...