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...Neanderthal dumbness," says Erik Trinkaus, a paleoanthropologist at Washington University (in St. Louis, Mo.), "emerged around the turn of the last century." People back then had a stake in believing that modern humans were the pinnacle of evolution, and because Neanderthals were clearly different physically, they had to be inferior." The new work by Zilhão and his colleagues, says Trinkaus, "is just one more important piece in that puzzle that says these people may have looked different, but behaviorally, cognitively and socially, they were not all that different from you and me." That includes their taste...
Readers of the Cambridge Chronicle—the inferior other Cambridge newspaper—may have noticed a rather strange placement of a sticker advertisement on this week's front page...
There's no date stamp on when the term Guido came into play, but Tricarico theorizes that it very well may have originated as an insult from within the Italian-American community, confering inferior status on immigrants who are "just off the boat." It clearly references non-assimilation in its use of a name more at home in the old homeland. In fact, in different locales, the same slur isn't Guido: in Chicago the term is "Mario" and in Toronto it goes by "Gino." Guido is far less offensive, among Italian-Americans, than another G word, which is also...
...allow construction to continue. The dispute echoed another flare-up that erupted last year when locals armed with slingshots critically injured another three Chinese workers over what the P.N.G. nationals considered to be workplace apartheid: everything, from their food and toilets to salaries and dormitories, they alleged, was far inferior to those of the Chinese workers. "The Chinese think we are animals," says a welder named Nenge, who refuses to give me his full name lest he get fired from his job. "No days off, sometimes tinned fish for overtime pay, dirty latrines with a bad smell. How can they...
...local convenience store sold out of them. (That may have been for the best: TIME's test generated a deluge of opinions about where the best chocolate comes from. The bottom line on the Old World side of the Atlantic: big selling American chocolate is sour, powdery and generally inferior to European chocolate...