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...complete first-edition collection of Jane Austen's novels. Churchill is a hit at Asprey. One client bought a Churchill book for George H.W. Bush, and another purchased an inscribed copy of Churchill's secret-sessions speeches for Bill Clinton. There's also a first edition of Darwin's The Origin of Species for the straight-A student in your life...
...people are trying--really trying--to get their neighbors biking and walking. In case you haven't heard, exercise has many advantages. For anyone trying to keep off weight, the simple activity of putting one foot in front of another is surprisingly useful. So in mid-May, Mayor Darwin Hindman, who at 71 still bikes to work, kicked off Bike, Walk and Wheel Week to coax residents to commute and shop without cars. Mayor Hindman and local Congressman Kenny Hulshof led dozens of cyclists on a 4-mile ride. A week later, volunteers were serving breakfast all over town...
Common sense sticks, to some extent, with the old paradigm. A lot of things endorsed by the starlings (reality TV, politicians, best-selling books) are so moronic that they practically disprove Darwin. But Surowiecki does not claim collective perfection, only the effectiveness of a diversity of individual intelligences--like those hundreds of scientists at labs all over the world who, without overall supervision but sharing their data, succeeded in isolating the SARS virus in only a matter of weeks. The Wisdom of Crowds is a subtly intelligent book that's fun to argue with: if it becomes a best seller...
Every half-century, it seems, an eminent Harvard psychologist crystallizes an intellectual era. Near the end of the 19th century, William James, writing in Darwin's wake, stressed how naturally functional the mind is. In the mid--20th century, after a pendulum swing, B.F. Skinner depicted the mind as a blank slate. Now the pendulum is swinging again. Harvard, which lured Pinker from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last year, seems poised to keep its tradition alive. --BY ROBERT WRIGHT, author of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
...promising Miatke has it so much better. "I'm overwhelmed by the amount of support I receive," says the Darwin-raised redhead, who moved to Melbourne at 14 to link with a new coach, Rohan Taylor. Miatke's on a scholarship at Carey Baptist Grammar School, lives with 17 other children at a nearby boarding house and looks adults she's just met square in the eye. Funded by the Victorian Institute of Sport, she has free, year-round access to masseurs, physiotherapists and psychologists. Though separated by distance from her family, she seldom wants for reassurance. Sometimes this comes...