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...aggression, competitiveness and risk taking, things we still think of as male behavior, are linked to the fact that men's bodies produce far more testosterone than women's bodies. His answer--a lot--was offered more as an intuition than a conclusion, but it produced a spate of fang baring among some higher primates in the media and scientific world, since it implies that gender differences owe more to biology than many people would like to believe. Three researchers wrote the Times to complain that Sullivan had overstated their thinking. In the online magazine Slate, columnist Judith Shulevitz attacked...
...allow it to buy that paper's successful long-time rival, the Chronicle. Those plans were put on hold Thursday when a U.S. district court judge halted the move based on a petition by local political gadfly Clint Reilly, who argued that the subsidized transfer of ownership to Ted Fang, the proprietor of a group of local newspapers, was a ploy to doom the Examiner and leave the Bay Area with only one daily newspaper. The ruling, which many believe Hearst will appeal, has touched off a debate among media analysts about the Newspaper Preservation Act, a law passed...
...paper. But in this age of continually updated headlines available on your desktop, there's little demand for the newsboy in front of the trolley stop shouting the day's headlines to afternoon commuters, and the 120-year-old Examiner's readership has dwindled to about 100,000 daily. Fang has said that as owner he would break the paper away from the Chronicle and convert it to a competing daily. Hearst has offered to subsidize the venture to the tune of $66 million over three years to make the paper solvent. Reilly, however, argued that the Chronicle has such...
According to Peggy Fang and Laurent Burman, Cyberposium co-chairs and second-year HBS students, over 100 students had been planning for this year's conference since last February. The two said their vision for Cyberposium 2000 was both to provide networking opportunities and to demonstrate the potential of technology in the new economy...
...creating a snazzy profile to present to college admissions directors. Achieva will tutor when your youngster falls behind and do the test prep to pull your kid ahead. The twentysomething counselors, who resemble the well-scrubbed models from a Gap ad, will even make a teenager, as adviser Tilden Fang did one afternoon, cheerfully agreeable to doing homework before play and going to bed on time...