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...self-control) and indicative of further character weaknesses; obese people are perceived as less intelligent, outgoing and competent. Even if smoking is occasionally viewed as an indication of dependence and lack of self-discipline, the similarities end there. Obesity is a far more complicated condition that results from the interplay of genetics, socio-cultural cues and environmental factors. While someone may consciously take up smoking, few if any consciously decide to attain that coveted cool state of morbid obesity. One does not inhale a Twinkie, thus resigning oneself to the health hazards that accompany obesity, the way one picks...
...encased it in glass, he says, "like one would a precious object." It still serves as the museum's beating heart and the centerpiece of the entire block?Taniguchi compares the museum to New York itself, calling the sculpture garden MOMA's own Central Park. Thereafter, he says, the interplay of spaces involved attempting to "connect the two cores"?the sculpture garden and the atrium?via a series of bridges, balconies, stairs and passageways, which link the various galleries in a splendidly (and newly) nonlinear and open floor plan...
After graduating from London’s Royal College of Art in 1984, Evans began exploring the complex interplay of words and images, often combining multi-media with eclectic textual sources to erode traditional boundaries between...
...this type of song he’s more effective. Traditional, yes, innovative, no; nonetheless here the music is so relentlessly pleasant that even the most hardened hipster would have to tip his trucker hat. “After Than Before” has no words, but the guitar interplay strikes a conversation that’s consistently interesting, and the instrumental never gives in to any sort of conventional classic-rock structure. The banjos and harmonicas winding out “Green Sea” show the band at their most diverse, in a sparkling mélange that...
Hamer is careful to point out that the gene he found is by no means the only one that affects spirituality. Even minor human traits can be governed by the interplay of many genes; something as complex as belief in God could involve hundreds or even thousands. "If someone comes to you and says, 'We've found the gene for X,'" says John Burn, medical director of the Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Newcastle in England, "you can stop them before they get to the end of the sentence...