Word: kinds
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...Rebel Soldiers. He wanted something to call attention to the group, prosecutors say, and what he had in mind was a racial killing. As it turned out, opportunity--in the form of Byrd ambling along the highway--presented itself a few weeks before July 4. It seemed precisely the kind of dramatic action King had been working toward. King dragged his victim's severed torso through a black part of town and dumped it near a black church and cemetery. He wanted Byrd's death to fulfill the traditional function of a lynching. "It was designed to strike terror into...
...followed by the evolutionary psychologists of the '90s, promoted what amounts to a prostitution theory of human evolution: Since males have always been free to roam around, following their bliss, the big challenge for the prehistoric female was to land a male hunter and keep him around in a kind of meat-for-sex arrangement. Museum dioramas of the Paleolithic past still tend to feature the guys heading out after the mastodons, spears in hand, while the gals crouch slack-jawed around the campfire, busily lactating. The chivalrous conclusion is that today's woman can do whatever she likes--start...
...sexes are turning out to be a little more complicated than we learned in 10th-grade biology, when testosterone was clearly the boy hormone and estrogen the girl hormone. Not only are both hormones present in both sexes, but estrogen is a real busybody, acting on just about every kind of tissue there is. Angier likens it to chocolate, "since almost every two-bit organ or tissue wants a bite out of it." Men deficient in estrogen aren't more manly; they're more prone to such diseases as osteoporosis. Women produce testosterone, and may even need it for sexual...
...there was only indirect evidence of communal hunting in Paleolithic times until archaeologist Olga Soffer came across the kind of clue that, a gender traditionalist might say, it took a womanly eye to notice. While sifting through clay fragments from the Paleolithic site of Pavlov in what is now the Czech Republic, she found a series of parallel lines impressed on some of the clay surfaces--evidence of woven fibers from about 25,000 years ago. Intrigued to find signs of weaving from this early date, Soffer and her colleagues examined 8,400 more clay fragments from the same...
Here, this writer should probably admit his biases. He speaks as a lifelong liberal, appalled since coming to political consciousness by the kind of Stalinoid bullying and terror inherent in Polonsky's chilling remark. Also as a lifelong cineast who came to aesthetic consciousness as Kazan was achieving his unprecedented (and so far unduplicated) status as the leading director in both theater and movies. And, finally, as one befriended by Kazan a decade ago, when I began producing a TV documentary about...