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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interesting thing is that female promiscuity seems to be a reproductively advantageous trait, which may explain why it prevails in the animal world. The more males a female prairie dog mates with, for example, the more likely she is to conceive and the larger her litters. Angier reports on data, still disputed, that suggest human females are more likely to get pregnant from sex with an adulterous lover than from sex with their spouse. Besides, if anatomy has anything to do with destiny, you would expect the human female, with her unique ecstasy organ--the clitoris--to be the sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Truth About The Female Body | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...will not encourage someone to take legalaction if he or she does not want to," theResponse member wrote. "We will tell the callerthat if he or she might want to take legal actionlater, a rape kit could be very important now. Wecan explain the contents of a rape kit and whatthe process is like...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: Assault Prompts Full Faculty Vote, Student Anger | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...will not encourage someone to take legal action if he or she does not want to," the Response member wrote. "We will tell the caller that if he or she might want to take legal action later, a rape kit could be very important now. We can explain the contents of a rape kit and what the process is like...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: College Lacks Adequate Resources for Rape Crises | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...research helps to explain why differing concentrations of odorants can produce entirely different sensations. For example, the chemical indole is perceived as floral when diluted but smells putrid in high concentrations, according to a press release on the study...

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, | Title: HMS Researchers Study Sense of Smell | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

Although Riley insisted that the museum worked as architectural and decorative whole, he never attempted to explain how. However, he did characterize the integration of art and architecture by astutely explaining that the "architecture is binding" and that it "leaks in and out of the art." In his discussion of the architecture a s subject in art, he suggested that architecture adds weightness or gravitas to a science and demonstrated this by claiming that furniture and architectural fragments in Botticell's "Mother and Child Jesus" made the scene less domestic and more dignified. Perhaps more convincing was his point that...

Author: By Judity Batalion, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MoMA Curator Builds Windy Castles at the Gardner | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

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