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...special opportunities that lead to further success.” A fascinating example that Gladwell explores is the case of hockey players in Canada. In hockey-crazed Canada, boys start playing hockey at a very young age and are placed in leagues based on their age group. The eligibility cutoff for each of these age groups is January 1, meaning that in the younger leagues those kids who were born in the first three months of the year are likely to be larger, stronger, and more mature than their peers who are nine or 10 months younger than they...
...years later, the cutoff expanded...
Unlike the typical '60s reminiscence, Mad Men doesn't have a baby-boomer perspective. (Creator Matthew Weiner, 42, was born after the boomer cutoff.) Its sensibility is closer to artifacts of its time like The Apartment or John Cheever's Wasp-character-study stories. In Mad Men, the boomers are a market for Clearasil or the children of the Drapers and their friends, largely unseen and unheard. (In a new episode, Don instructs his grade-school-age daughter how to mix a Tom Collins for guests...
...friend” has become a verb, the acquisition of another recognizable acquaintance translates to enhanced social capital. Or does it? The Penn State study found that, once someone had more than 800 friends, people started deeming him insecure. It’s unclear how 800 became the cutoff, but there...
...Disseldorp acknowledges that the precise AMH level for menopause may differ among populations, and thus anticipates that additional studies like his will need to both verify his finding and perhaps establish other cutoff levels for women of different racial and ethnic backgrounds...