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However, while Burkett freely airs complaints from childless workers that they continually log longer hours so their colleagues can attend soccer games and school plays and cites a 1997 study documenting anger over family-centric policies at two companies, she ignores a finding in the same study--by Mary B. Young for the William Olsten Center for Workforce Strategies--that there was in fact no difference in the number of hours worked by parents and nonparents. Similarly, Burkett profiles a well-to-do mother who claims child-care tax credits for a job undertaken for "stimulation" but fails to acknowledge...
...risk of sounding species-centric, I think words are cooler than pheromones. Words lent vital impetus to a whole new kind of evolution, a cultural evolution through which politics and religion and technology develop. Note how much of the evolving technology, in particular, is an infrastructure for non-zero-sum games--from the Silk Road, which eased mutually profitable exchange, to the Internet, which lets you play more games with more people than ever before. Meanwhile, social complexity has grown, just as organic complexity grew via biological evolution...
...each of the distribution centers. Here in Coffeyville, the high walls are painted white, and the endless rows of stock shelves shine in fluorescent yellow--the better to see the billboard-size banners that festoon the aisles and walls. "Our vision," reads one, "is the world's most customer-centric company. The place where people come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online." Another banner floats above one of the aisles and lists the company's Six Core Values ("customer obsession, ownership, bias for action, frugality, high hiring bar and innovation"). It's like the Cultural...
...While most of the songs came from their recent Contino Sessions album, several of the sample-centric tracks of Dead Elvis were spruced up by live arrangements. The grinding, nasty groove of "Dirt" was transformed into an almost soulful rave-up with horns, and as with the other up-tempo selections, the band came off sounding like Booker T. and the MGs in the year 2100. The highlight of the evening was "Flying," off the Contino Sessions. Less psychedelic and more rhythmically insistent than the album version, the densely layered music spiraled seemingly endlessly into a gorgeous wall of sound...
...seems likely that for a while at least we'll keep getting fatter. We can't undo evolution, and we haven't found a way to fool Mother Nature--yet. But before the 21st century is half over, with the body's fat-centric metabolism laid bare and the ability to manipulate genes part of medicine's standard tool kit, the trend may finally stop. Chubbiness may not disappear, but it could become optional. A future without Richard Simmons' commercials would be a wonderful future indeed...