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...Whenever I read remarks like those, I am reminded of the fact that only 4% of our DNA sequences are different from those of chimpanzees, and that like our fellow primates we are but dumb mammals, powerless in the presence of cheap stimulants (Salt! Sugar! Fats!). The arguments we use to justify our dependence on them are callow and banal - why, for example, is eating healthily equated with being "boring," when nothing could be more boring than being dead? Why do we obsessively focus on the one-in-a-million 90-year-olds who survive against all odds, and ignore...
...good he can be? I can't say that. But I think he'll be better than me.' YAO MING, all-star center for the Houston Rockets, on his fellow Chinese basketball player, rookie Yi Jianlian. The Rockets defeated Yi's Milwaukee Bucks in the two players' heavily hyped first-ever face-off, which drew as many as 200 million viewers in China
...popularity of reality TV, which is cheap to produce and capable of provoking controversy that hooks big audiences. Controversy is, of course, hard to control. Channel 4's last run of Celebrity Big Brother sparked riots in India after Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was subjected to racial abuse from fellow contestants...
...sociability doesn't mean that tensions won't exist. In fact, De Rond argues that tension is a given in any successful collaborative effort. "In rowing, the only way to go fast is to cooperate fully" with the others, he says. That's hard when fellow rowers are also rivals for a handful of seats on the boat. The same dilemma occurs in business. Co-workers have to cooperate to succeed while competing with one another for promotions, resources and the attention of superiors. To ease the tension, the Cambridge rowers relied on humor, typically crude and black. When that...
...people, including Australians, want figures to admire. "If we don't have the Queen, whom can we look up to?" was one of the most frequent complaints at referendum time. The thought that in a democracy you don't look up to your superiors, but sideways at your fellow citizens, wasn't much aired in monarchist circles. And Australia has always been short not only of convincing shared ceremonies of national identity but also of shared folk heroes. You can count them on less than two hands. Two are alive--the great cricketer Donald Bradman, now 91, and the swimming...