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...time being, women should not rule out long-term hormone therapy, but they should weigh the pros and cons with great care. "This is just one study," says Schairer. "I'm not going to hang my hat on it. But it does provide an impetus for women to discuss alternatives with their doctors...
...Calls to repeal or revamp capital punishment have snowballed in the past few years (with much of the impetus coming from outside the U.S., which remains the only Western country with the death penalty). Opposition groups celebrated in 1987 when the Supreme Court agreed to hear McClesky v. Kemp, which questioned the constitutionality of executions in Georgia, where, the suit alleged, the death penalty was sought considerably more often in cases involving white victims than it was when the victims were black. The Court decided in favor of Georgia. Then last year the Nebraska legislature, concerned about what...
...risk of sounding species-centric, I think words are cooler than pheromones. Words lent vital impetus to a whole new kind of evolution, a cultural evolution through which politics and religion and technology develop. Note how much of the evolving technology, in particular, is an infrastructure for non-zero-sum games--from the Silk Road, which eased mutually profitable exchange, to the Internet, which lets you play more games with more people than ever before. Meanwhile, social complexity has grown, just as organic complexity grew via biological evolution...
Witness how often the same basic innovation was made independently by different people in different places at roughly the same time. And witness--as testament to the impetus behind easing communication--how often those independent breakthroughs were in information technology itself: the telegraph (Charles Wheatstone and Samuel F.B. Morse, 1837); color photography (Charles Cros and Louis Ducos du Hauron, 1868); the phonograph (Charles Cros--again!--and Thomas Edison, 1877); the telephone (Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell, 1876)--and so on, all the way up to the microchip (Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce...
Priceline founder Jay Walker says his biggest customers are seniors, college students and parents with small children, who have the impetus to navigate the bidding process for the average $12.75 it will save them on a basket of 10 items. "For some families," he says, "that's the difference between putting meat on the table once a week and three times a week...