Word: distinctives
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...network. Using data on the social networks of 1,110 adolescent twins, researchers were able to show that social networks of identical twins share more similarities in structure than those of fraternal twins in measurements of transitivity, centrality, and the number of friends. According to Christakis, there are distinct evolutionary advantages and disadvantages of being at a particular location in a social network. He said that if a deadly germ is moving through the population, being in the periphery has a clear advantage. Alternately, being in the center of a social network can provide access to valuable information about prey...
CORRECTION: The Feb. 6 article "Finding Fun in the Sun(dance)" incorrectly stated that the movies "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" and "Sin Nombre" were one and the same. In fact, the two are distinct films, both shown at Sundance. The former was by director and screenwriter John Krasinski and the latter by director and screenwriter Cary Joji Fukunaga...
...what goes on in the world of VES—often secluded from more traditional concentrations—with pieces in a range of media, including sculpture, photography, oil paintings, silk screening, music, and video. The exhibit as a whole provides visitors with a new sort of intellectual engagement distinct from lectures and paper writing, asking students to think beyond their concentration or what they’ve come to regard as the norm at Harvard.Upon opening the heavy door to the Sert Gallery, viewers could stare into the face of Dorothy L. McLeod ’12, standing...
...stimulus bill to tax cuts and the delicate question of whether to investigate Bush Administration officials for crimes related to torture - Pelosi has voiced and even pushed through the House differing positions from the President, at times to the embarrassment of Democrats. Obama and Pelosi each, of course, have distinct motives, and personalities: Pelosi is a partisan warrior who must tend to her caucus, while Obama got elected as a postpartisan healer, implicitly attacking the old ways of Washington and striving to appeal to a broader national base. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...fashioned. Blago seems less an old Chicago-machine boss than a distinct 21st century character: the American with Too Much Self-Esteem...