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...similar to other men, but partnered gay men have earnings quite substantially below men who partner with women." Gates has a theory about the disparity: "Being gay has impact, particularly on the executive level. You can't go to the golf club with your wife. Your wife can't entertain the spouses...
...frankly, it looks like hell on earth. It also seems to me that, in reality, this emptiness would probably be an invitation to long, gloomy thoughts about mortality and the meaninglessness of life when there's no job to go to, no kids to raise, no hopes to entertain. In this context, it is easy to see why sex - or, anyway, the thought of sex, the dream of sex - becomes so important to everyone. It becomes part of a 12-step program to keep the bogeyman...
...admitted to stealing. To prove this, the library has hired a Philadelphia lawyer with experience prosecuting art and culture thieves, according to The Hartford Courant. Carson declined to comment on what might happen to Smiley if more stolen maps were found. “We continue to entertain serious doubts about the completeness of the investigation and the extent of Mr. Smiley’s cooperation with the authorities,” British Library Director of Scholarship and Collections Clive Field wrote to the FBI, according to The Courant. Though Harvard has yet to hire its own prosecutor...
...Juggling Federation (WJF), dedicated to promoting juggling as a sport, not a sideshow. There are no clowns in the WJF. In WJF events, contestants are judged on the difficulty of their routines and the technical skill with which they execute them, and nothing else. The object is not to entertain but to win. "I wanted to see people competing like athletes," Garfield says. "Kind of like an X Games for juggling...
Collins showed no surprise that a star scholar poised to contribute to the future of medicine should entertain the idea that evolution might not apply to humans. Indeed, the question was almost predictable, since the room was filled with Harvey Fellows, high-performing young academics devoted to bringing a Christian presence to fields where Evangelicals are underrepresented. And Collins, that rarest of raritiesa superstar evangelical biologistand author of the new book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Free Press; 304 pages), was perfectly qualified to answer. He did. That notion "gets you into a series...