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...book-selling and publishing was very different. What we know today is a product of the 20th century. Where it is going in the future, I don't know. But I think the nature of storytelling, of language, of literature will never disappear because it's just part of human nature...
...Manny, Diego and Sid have been friends since at least 2002, when they nurtured a human baby whose mother had deposited the infant at their feet and then expired, doubtless reassured that her child was in good hooves/paws/claws. In 2006, they coped with global warming in Ice Age: The Meltdown and Manny had the good fortune to meet his true mammoth love, Ellie (Queen Latifah...
...Furthermore, he said, when SEIU organizers meet with human resource and academic administrators, Harvard officials are uninformed and fail to communicate openly about their specific cost-cutting needs and goals. He said that the union routinely asks Harvard how many staff will be cut and how the University plans to accomplish the same workload with fewer staff, but each time the response has been unclear and unsatisfactory...
...everyone is convinced by the science behind the concept. "There's conflicting evidence as to the extent to which HLA plays a role in what we call mate choice," says Peter Donnelly, director of Oxford's Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics. But GenePartner is betting that the lovelorn will give it a shot. For now, for $99, you can order a kit, swab your cheek, mail it to Switzerland and get your GenePartner ID. You can then be matched with anybody in the GenePartner database. Eventually, you'll be able to take your ID with you from dating site...
GenePartner is testing only one group of genes: human leukocyte antigens (HLAs), which play an essential role in immune function. One hypothesis from the T-shirt experiment is that the offspring of couples with different HLAs stand to inherit a greater variety of potential immune responses and will therefore be more resistant to disease. Another is that HLAs help people screen out mating partners to whom they might be too closely related...