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...developments like Levittown, N.Y., the Long Island community that calls itself the country's first suburb. Beginning in 1947, developer Bill Levitt's armies of builders churned out house after house, transforming a bare potato field into a centrally planned town that today is home to 53,000 people. Low-cost and low-interest loans enabled the working class to flee dense cities for the new suburbs, while cheap cars and cheaper gasoline supported their long commutes to urban workplaces. Three-bedroom houses, two cars in the driveway? The suburbs were about having more, and more became the American Dream...
...women's voices and then rate the way they sound on a scale from "very unattractive" to "very attractive." On the whole, the people whose voices scored high on attractiveness also had physical features considered sexually appealing, such as broad shoulders in men and a low waist-to-hip ratio in women. This suggests either that an alluring voice is part of a suite of sexual qualities that come bundled together or that simply knowing you look appealing encourages you to develop a voice to match. Causation and mere correlation often get muddied in studies like this, but either...
...low success rate of cloning may mean that many deformed animals suffer and die young. And the prospect of losing genetic diversity in certain species adds a little more food for thought...
...woman to hold the post. Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87, another veteran council member, was elected vice mayor. Simmons said yesterday that she would continue to focus on the issues she has supported since joining the city council in 2002: education, housing for low and middle-income residents, and creating “green-collar jobs”—new employment opportunities in the environmental field. “Cambridge is changing, and Cambridge policies have to change too. We have to stay abreast of that,” Simmons said...
...advertising campaign in full swing, the team behind Harvard’s “Q” course evaluation system is trying to persuade undergraduates to offer a little more feedback this time around.Professors and administrators hope the new efforts will revive the guide, which has suffered from low response rates. Last spring, 62 percent of course evaluations were at least partially filled out, according to the Office of the Registrar.“They’re low,” said interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam. “They’re never...