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That Other Beltway, by contrast, gets part of its flavor from the naive egocentrism of brainy teenage boys. (Bellenson and Sasson are not good examples. Check out the Website of software billionaire Paul Allen if you want a taste.) Inside this Beltway some grownups in their 20s and 30s are still obsessed with Captain Kirk. If they have any political interest, it's a lingering passion for Ayn Rand. And this Beltway's spectacular success keeps it, and them, every bit as isolated from the rest of the country as the Beltway at the other end of Highway 50. Neither...
...Kansi family home to express anger over the matter. "Kansi is a local hero," says Syed Talat Hussain, a newspaper columnist. "People praise him for the audacity of his crime. He took on the most dreaded intelligence agency in the world, and that gave him instant popularity." By contrast, in Washington there is only exultation. Kansi, who made incriminating statements on the plane ride to the U.S., is being held without bail in Fairfax County, Va., near CIA headquarters. Last Wednesday, when the FBI's Pickard and Carter went to meet with CIA employees in the agency's auditorium, they...
...governs social skills, and if those genes are activated only when they're passed on by the father. This phenomenon, called genetic imprinting, is known to occur in humans. Thus, says Skuse, boys are genetically destined to be inept because they get their X chromosome from Mom. Girls, by contrast, are socially adroit because they get one X from Dad (not that it did him any good, since he got it from...
...point in its favor is that it makes evolutionary sense. In hunter-gatherer tribes, women with strong social skills would presumably have had an advantage in attracting mates. Men in those societies, by contrast, might have been better off without acute sensitivities. After all, says Skuse, "being somewhat less empathic is an advantage if you are going out to kill somebody...
...Chretien. A red line slashed across their faces. Wasn't it time that voters heard a voice for "all Canadians" and "not just Quebec politicians?" asked the narrator. Incensed Quebeckers charged the sponsors of the ad, the western-based Reform Party, with bigotry and racism. In the west, by contrast, the message struck a sympathetic chord. The Reform Party went on to capture 60 seats in Parliament, second only to Chretien's victorious Liberals...