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...Sadekar insists she's picking up the LPGA's slack. "We feel like the LPGA isn't marketing players the way they should be marketed," says Sadekar. "The door is wide open for us, and the opportunities are endless." By promising extra income and exposure to a broader audience, she's shooting to hire more LPGA pros as the tour struggles in a sour economy and crowded sports landscape. She points to the lack of buzz surrounding the world's top-ranked women's golfer, Lorena Ochoa, as an example of the LPGA's ineptitude. "With every...
...Lowdown: Like Sigmund Freud, Miller sees sex everywhere; all our acquisitions of personal goods, according to Miller, are motivated by the primal desire for procreation, pleasure or both. Though he advocates abolishing income taxes in favor of a "consumption tax" and learning to buy secondhand, he isn't a utopian hippie radical either. "Unlike many malcontents," Miller writes, "I consider the three best inventions of all time to be money, markets and media." But while Miller does his best to avoid sounding too academic (and has an ear for pulled-from-TMZ.com phrases like "insecure, praise-starved flattery-sluts"), his broad, rambling...
...This isn't exactly the stamp of approval most scientists look for, though, and in this case the puffery is especially unfortunate because the actual scientific finding, described in a paper published on May 19 in the online journal PLoS One, really is important. First, the young mammal, which would have looked like a cross between a lemur and a small monkey, is astonishingly complete. "Most of what we understand about primate evolution is pieced together from bits of teeth and jaws," says Michael Novacek, curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. Ida, by contrast, has pretty...
...structured that way by chance, says Dr. Thomas J. Nasca, chief executive officer of ACGME. Learning to work through exhaustion is part of the training process, not merely a matter of young residents paying dues or getting hazed by veterans. "This is not indoctrination," he says. "It isn't a fraternity...
...excitement because everybody feels like, Well, this is the opportunity. But if people know I'm out there every Saturday, what you get is more of the normal kind of - I'm sitting down, somebody may come over and sit and we strike up a conversation. There isn't a frenzy because, you know, you're out there with everybody else...