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...There are chapters on what being a mother can do for your senses--especially in pregnancy and immediately afterward--for your efficiency (including learning and memory), your motivation, your stress-coping mechanisms and your social skills or emotional intelligence. In each one, I try to guide the reader through all the scientific evidence available, including some cutting-edge research, and also have many women talking about their experiences. So in the chapter on efficiency, which is titled "How Necessity Is the Mother of Multitasking," I interview a corporate executive who found herself with triplets and had to learn quickly...
Levitt has published most of this material before in academic journals. But Freakonomics is accessible to people who don't understand regression analysis, the procedure statisticians use to sort through data. And its authors knit in research by other scholars. Each chapter is an enlightening field trip, like the investigations into human nature in Malcolm Gladwell's books, The Tipping Point and Blink. But in Freakonomics, attempts to link the chapters together fall flat. There is no unifying theory here, which is a shame...
...would be more than adequate substitutes for detailed bedroom scenes. But Krinsky’s vapid characters are so irritating that halfway through, the reader might begin praying for them to start randomly coupling. The most provocative parts of “Chloe” are its slightly altered chapter-ending reprints of Krinsky’s actual “Sex and the (Elm) City” columns (now bylined by her alter ego), all of which I and most of my acquaintances have already read online...
Half of the nominees in each field were elected and notified by letters that were mailed last Tuesday, according to Senior Lecturer on Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations James F. Coakley ’68, secretary of Harvard’s chapter...
According to the website, Harvard’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, established in 1779, is the oldest continuously operating chapter in the country...