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...corner of the cage. Without the mother to keep them warm, the babies soon died. The gene, known as fosB, is probably activated by the sight and smell of baby mice and sets off a host of other chemical and behavioral reactions. Mouse mothers with the fosB gene will hunker down over their young within a minute or two to keep the hairless little mice warm and fed. Humans have the fosB gene too, but it is far to early to tell what effect it has on mothering behavior. "Genetics does have an influence on human behavior," says TIME...
...time to plant cotton and corn has come and, in most places, gone, while farmers hunker down in their fields and crumble handfuls of soil into plumes of fine dust. Texas is the nation's leading cotton-growing state, but agronomists there predict that 50% of this year's crop could be lost, along with more than $200 million profit to farmers and producers. Prospects for the corn crop are just as barren. "Corn should be 8 ft. high by now," says Mark Miller, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M University, "but even in the best fields...
Strengthened and redeployed to fewer enclaves, the so-called peacekeepers will do ... what? They are already ineffective at shielding and feeding innocent civilians; if they merely hunker down in the six existing misnamed safe havens, it will become impossible for them to fulfill those missions. Worse, they will continue as prime targets of the Serbs, because the Bosnian Muslims use those very same areas to rest, retrain and plan counterattacks. If, to render themselves less vulnerable, they retreat to more remote locations, they will be safer but almost wholly irrelevant-unless they become combatants, which is the last thing their...
...basics and restructuring is paying off. Companies that make it into the Dow have reached middle age and can no longer grow as fast as they once did, so instead of wasting money in a futile attempt to live in the fast lane, they've figured out how to hunker down and accept their limitations. "They're squeezing out the profits," says Shelby Davis, manager of the New York Venture Fund...
That's because the mood is mixed. Even in a year of mostly favorable economic indicators -- a 2.6% inflation rate, 3.9% third-quarter growth, 5.6% unemployment for November -- a middle class fearful of losing its economic footing is plainly of a mind to hunker down. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 61% of those surveyed agreed with the statement that "the way things are today, people have to worry more about themselves and their families and less about helping others." That's a sentiment that speaks not so much of the Christmas season as of the dead of winter, marked...