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New York can cultivate the arts as an industry sector for the same reason that Detroit can support the production of cars: because it offers a powerful infrastructure, a network of suppliers, expertise and kindred spirits. The camera crews of TV production units have access to countless photo-equipment shops...
What scientists, not to mention the rest of us, want to know is, Why? What makes us go so loony over love? Why would we bother with this elaborate exercise in fan dances and flirtations, winking and signaling, joy and sorrow? "We have only a very limited understanding of what...
We honor heroes?in sports as in life?for grace and guts as well as natural gifts. When something comes easily, it's easy not to work at it, like the bright kid who coasts through class: talent taps persistence on the shoulder, says, You're not needed here. But...
For example, if a foreigner asks, "How do you get to the Nicaraguan Tourism Institute?" the conversation might go like this:
One of the reasons we flirt in this way is that we can't help it. We're programmed to do it, whether by biology or culture. The biology part has been investigated by any number of researchers. Ethologist Irenaus Eibl Eibesfeldt, then of the Max Planck Institute in Germany...