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...know is, Why? What makes us go so loony over love? Why would we bother with this elaborate exercise in fan dances and flirtations, winking and signaling, joy and sorrow? "We have only a very limited understanding of what romance is in a scientific sense," admits John Bancroft, emeritus director of the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Ind., a place where they know a thing or two about the way human beings pair up. But that limited understanding is expanding. The more scientists look, the more they're able to tease romance apart into its individual strands-the visual, auditory, olfactory...
Still, “There are laws, there are obligations that we have to uphold,” she said, adding later that at least one university president—John McCardell, president emeritus of Middlebury College—has called for the drinking age to be lowered...
...Harvard's professor emeritus Ezra F. Vogel - who has enjoyed good relations with many of China's leaders, past and present - chaired several sessions during the Tibet conference. Beijing might want to consider Vogel's opinion regarding the 15th Dalai Lama: "If the Dalai Lama passes away without agreement with China, then you could have someone Beijing selects, who would not be acceptable to Tibetans. Then China could be in for a long-term problem, like Russia has in Chechnya...
...McPherson, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, says that though the article was “not controversy of the first order,” it elicited several published challenges—the ultimate academic compliment...
...Phantoms, its main model, slightly more than the previous year. Revenues were also up--the company won't say by how much--largely because of the newly introduced extended-wheelbase Phantom, which has a base price of $403,000, or $63,000 more than the standard version. Garel Rhys, emeritus professor of automotive economics at Cardiff Business School in Wales, applauds the company's performance since its acquisition by BMW: "You couldn't expect much better." In July, it rolled out the Drophead Coupe, a two-door convertible Phantom starting at $407,000. Overall, Robertson predicts, the firm should enjoy...