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...light of our society’s pervasive equation of meat-eating with masculine dominance, such minglings of the anti-meat agenda with misogyny assume added complexity. The ostensible absurdity of a vegetarian weight-lifter exposes a deep-rooted cultural fiction: that men gain strength and virility through eating the flesh of other mammals. Although, from a nutritional standpoint, meat may do more to clog men’s arteries than to build their muscles, meat retains symbolic power: The slaughter and consumption of animal flesh serves as a means for men to assert their dominance over nature...
...Tech Mahindra, a Pune-based telecom-solutions provider, won the auction on Monday, agreeing to buy 31% of Satyam for $352 million, a 23% premium to Satyam's last closing price on Thursday. Tech Mahindra plans to make a public offer to acquire 20% more of Satyam shares to gain a majority stake, as required by Indian law, taking the cost of the deal to $580 billion. (Read TIME's 2006 cover story about telecommunications in India...
...We’re still working on lineups and getting good training in, but it’s hardly a predictor of the rest of the season,” Demers said. “I think we have a lot of speed to find and gain, and I think we can do that in the next few weeks.”On Saturday, facing some of the best competition in the country, the No. 4 Radcliffe lightweight crew team finished in second place at the Knecht Cup on the Cooper River in Camden, New Jersey. Both the first...
...worrying that their children were growing abnormally. “I’d recommend that mothers not necessarily worry,” she said. “These are questions for the pediatrician to determine.” The main implication of this study is that rapid weight gains early in life are significant and are associated with later obesity, according to Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, a research associate at Harvard Medical School and one of the article’s authors. “[Early life] might be a critical period that health professionals and researchers should focus...
...What happens with the most interesting works of art, I think, is that you start with a sense of deception, of half-knowledge, preferably with the deck stacked against your protagonist, and then in the course of whatever you’re watching or hearing, you gain a greater, deeper understanding of who that person is.”Toback, like his subject, has something of a bad reputation. Associated in Hollywood with drug cults, hustlers, and gangsters, he makes no attempt to hide his own vices. His first feature film was called “The Gambler?...