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...price they have paid for various items for either themselves or someone else, men out-spend women in terms of the most spent on jewelry (the average being $1,251 men-$1,117 women), clothing ($780-$690) and a pair of shoes ($257-$200). Almost half (40%) of respondents claim to have spent $2,000 or more on jewelry for either themselves or someone else.? The most money spent on beauty and grooming products is fairly equal between the sexes ($153 men-$156 women). Women spent the most money on clothing (an average of $2,197 women...
...them seriously until 1997. In that year, a blue-ribbon panel of researchers took a hard look at evidence presented by Tom Dillehay, then at the University of Kentucky, from a site he had been excavating in Monte Verde, Chile. After years of skepticism, the panel finally affirmed his claim that the site proved humans had lived there 12,500 years ago. "Monte Verde was the turning point," says David Meltzer, a professor of prehistory at Southern Methodist University in Dallas who was on the panel. "It broke the Clovis barrier...
...have had many conversations with Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims about the cartoons. The issue of freedom of speech is not well understood by them, but the reasoning behind their outrage does not lack merit. Westerners can claim that we are totally free to print or write anything we wish. That people are offended is assumed to be less important than the right to express oneself in a free society. But am I free to print a pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic article in Germany? Of course not. Ronald Monsen Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...
...trap game. Penn definitely isn’t overlooking Yale, and the Quakers get the Bulldogs first on the trip, rather than the always dangerous Saturday road contest.Penn takes it by four.PRINCETON (10-14, 8-3) AT BROWN (9-16, 5-7)While the Tigers need help to claim the Ivy title, they also need to take care of business themselves against a pesky Bears team that has won three of its last five.The key to the game, as it is in most league contests, will be three-point differentials—the difference between a team?...
Apparently New York Times columnists don’t have to make sense. The claim that Harvard faculty have abandoned the Revolution has been making the rounds of the right-wing press for several years now. A couple of years ago, I actually received an e-mail from a correspondent in the Midwest asking me if it was true, as a local columnist claimed, that Harvard had replaced its course on the Revolution with courses on midwifery and quilting. As the author of a rather well-known book on an 18th-century midwife, I knew when I had been zinged...