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...YORK, N.Y. — In Red Hook, Brooklyn, where crumbling warehouses butt up against a shiny new Ikea, summer weekends mean huaraches and hipsters. Every Saturday and Sunday, a band of pan-Latin food carts flank the edges of the neighborhood soccer fields, serving dishes like the Mexican cornmeal huarache, and bringing with them a crowd eager for gustatory experience...
...providing refreshments for the amateur athletes, but it wasn’t until the last few years that the mix of cornmeal and ground meat became destination dining. Food blogs hail the carts as some of the city’s best and the name “Red Hook Ball Fields” is now synonymous with street food delicacy. The carts have taken their place among New York’s ethnic cuisine elite—when the city threatened not to renew the vendors’ permit in 2007, dedicated eaters, including Senator Chuck Schumer, rallied...
GenePartner is offering genetic matching to companies already looking to hook up people on the basis of important social factors like age, interests and geographic location. "We're very accurate with the biological part--predicting that 'spark,'" Brown says...
...argue that the majority of people who have affairs are actually good people who just made a mistake. Isn't that letting them off the hook? No. They're good people because they really are suffering. And they don't know what to do. They want love in their life, [and] they feel that there's something radically wrong and they don't know how to correct...
...gender differences, by the way, don't let fathers off the hook. Men may not have hurried to get the unattractive faces off the screen, but neither did they linger over them the way they did the attractive faces. In both cases, this suggests bias, and when the rubber hits the road of real childcare, parents of either sex may end up having similar instincts. More clarity should come when Elman conducts the next phase of his work: running the same experiment but hooking the subjects up to brain scans throughout it. This will make it far easier...