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...should this be so? Did nature simply overload us in the mating department, hot-wiring us for the sex that is so central to the survival of the species, and never mind the sometimes sloppy consequences? Or is there something smarter and subtler at work, some larger interplay among sexuality, life and what it means to be human? Can evolution program for poetry, or does it simply want children...
...responded to a placebo showed, the real point is to create a sex life that works. Feeling is believing, and vice versa. We experience attraction and sexual desire as a sort of magic, a phenomenon filled with delightful mystery. And if scientists continue to be overwhelmed by the complex interplay of dozens of substances percolating from mind to body and back, that keeps the mystery nicely intact. --Reported by Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles
...both his native Greek and English, but he was an Alexandrian and proud of it. He was, in other words, a symbol himself - of a time when the Middle East was not shaped by thugs like Saddam, but could enfold many religions and languages, and breed from their interplay sublime moments of art and humanity. If the capture of Saddam marks the moment that such a world starts to be reborn, it will be the best symbol...
...basic political arithmetic that has been dominated by the Sunni minority ever since the British first cobbled together three Ottoman provinces to create Iraq. Even as they wage a full-blown counterinsurgency war against the Sunni insurgents, U.S. officials in Iraq will be anxiously watching the complex political interplay among the Shiites in the coming months. A U.S.-authored political order in Iraq is unlikely to prosper or even survive unless it is wholeheartedly embraced by the Shiites. Which suggests that much now rides on how Grand Ayatollah Sistani chooses to respond to the decision by Bremer...
However, the interplay of these gender advancements with racism and race politics is a far better kept secret. The advancement of women of color within the American workplace and beyond is not a topic of widespread political interest. Professionally, women of color have struggled to surmount impediments to tenure and upward mobility, faced difficulties in creating minority women-owned businesses and entrepreneurial ventures and confronted the problem of being historically cut off from the social networks that enable career expansion and promotion. The specter of sexual assault and rape within the minority community and lack of knowledge about, and treatment...