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Human beings have spent 99 percent of their existence as hunter-gatherers, a profession for which they remain genetically adapted. The distinction between hunters and gatherers is, for the most part, a sexual one: 50,000 years ago, men single-mindedly focused on their prey in the sub-Saharan plain while women became adept at multi-tasking, gathering a variety of foods and ensuring the safety of their offspring. Our current gender-stratified social system did not emerge from a philosophical abyss; it evolved over tens of thousands of years as a function of the behavioral characteristics that allowed...
HUMAN BEINGS HAVE ALWAYS HAD A CAPACITY to attend to several things at once. Mothers have done it since the hunter-gatherer era--picking berries while suckling an infant, stirring the pot with one eye on the toddler. Nor is electronic multitasking entirely new: we've been driving while listening to car radios since they became popular in the 1930s. But there is no doubt that the phenomenon has reached a kind of warp speed in the era of Web-enabled computers, when it has become routine to conduct six IM conversations, watch American Idol on TV and Google...
Instead, the three alleged arsonists, who have all been charged with federal conspiracy to burn churches, were popular college kids with big dreams and real talents. Matthew Cloyd, 20, was a premed student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to which he transferred last year. An avid deer hunter and a high school math-honor-society student, Cloyd remained close to two friends he met during his freshman and sophomore years at Birmingham-Southern College, Russell DeBusk and Benjamin Moseley. The 19-year-old theater majors were a tight pair at the small liberal-arts school, which is affiliated...
...Thomas, who goes by the street name DK the Line Pimp, had flown in from Denver and was first in line to buy the $100 Cowboy Air Max 180s, which were scheduled to go on sale at 10 that night. Just 140 pairs of these limited-edition sneakers--a hunter green, lizard-skin design with a light pink Swoosh--were manufactured, and they would be sold only at the Miami store and only that night. As a snaking line of mostly young men waited for the doors to open, Thomas, 21, reflected on how much getting the shoes meant...
...generally saw some teams genuinely get excited about beating us. Within the context of our league, we all of a sudden became a quality win, and we took a good shot from a lot of teams.”Now, Harvard is back in the role of the hunter. —Staff writer Caleb W. Peiffer can be reached at cpeiffer@fas.harvard.edu...