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...nurse children-though most don't think about such matters so lucidly. Women see a broad chest and shoulders as a sign of someone who can clobber a steady supply of meat and keep lions away from the cave. And while a hairy chest and a full beard have fallen out of favor in the waxed and buffed 21st century, they are historically-if unconsciously-seen as signs of healthy testosterone flow that gives rise to both fertility and strength...
...This is not the first time that Germans have fallen prey to the attractions of a baby bear. Almost exactly one year ago, a mother polar bear in Berlin's central zoo also rejected her offspring. The cub, christened Knut, went on to become a media celebrity, gracing the cover of Vanity Fair and inspiring a blog devoted to his daily routine. A Hollywood producer, Ash Shah, recently offered the Berlin zoo $100,000 for the rights to his life story, plus a profit share for the zoo of up to $5 million if the movie does well. Negotiations...
...able to bail us out of trouble. He has given us a chance to win all these close games if not winning some by himself.” Saturday night’s loss marks the Crimson’s seventh straight game without a victory, and team has fallen below .500 for the first time since its season-opening loss to Clarkson in early November. Thanks to the win, Princeton now shares the top spot in the ECAC with Harvard and Clarkson. “Any team in a season like ours will deal with some adversity, and we?...
...that can make death sentences so financially and emotionally costly. As a result, prosecutors are seeking and juries are delivering far fewer death sentences: last year's total of 110 was the lowest since the introduction of the modern death-penalty system. Nationwide, the number of death sentences has fallen almost two-thirds, and the trend extends even to Texas, the heart of the death-penalty machine. There, 14 prisoners were sentenced to death in 2006, compared with 40 a decade earlier...
...larger than a house party, but they were enthusiastic. There were whistles, screams and signs whose wordy perfectionism - one lists all seven of the planks of Romney's stump speech - contrast sharply with the brightly-colored faux folkiness of the signs distributed by volunteers. These are people who have fallen for the guy they entered into an arranged marriage with. "I love him! I love him! I love him!" shouts a former teacher in Cedar Rapids...