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What exactly is the Running Man theory? The theory is that humans evolved as running-pack animals, that they only way we got food was by running our prey to death. The human brain exploded in size about 2 million years ago, expanding from a peanut to the melon we have now. That could've only happened if humans were eating animal carcasses. But the first weapon only appeared 200,000 years ago, so for 1,800,000 years we were somehow acquiring dead animals without having a weapon to kill them. So the theory is that we ran animals...
...world No. 1 Jim Courier says, "Technology has been the catalyst, but my guess is that if you forced all players to go back to technology from 1950 they would play much more aggressively than previous generations. The new style is working for them." Whatever the exact interplay of man and equipment may be, it has allowed fans to witness a thrilling revolution...
...good news is that Indian voters are starting to raise their expectations. In rural West Bengal last fall, I met a man whose biggest complaint was that his village had no electricity. His children had no light to study under in the evenings, and he had to buy expensive diesel for a generator to charge his mobile phone. He wasn't simply deprived; he was angry because he knew exactly what he was missing. Cell phones and cable television have brought not just political advertising to poor and rural areas but also new aspirations and a more acute awareness...
...listened to moore do interviews during the U.S. election in 2008. It did not escape my attention then that he was a very passionate man, vociferous about the causes he espoused, though many times he appeared to be rambling, unrealistic and perhaps a touch fanatical in his views. But I was highly impressed by his article on Bernie Madoff. It is a superb piece of writing with the right mix of incisive sarcasm and wit that reveals a dark corner of American society with the intensity of a searchlight. And the accompanying sketch of Madoff once again underlines why TIME...
...Richest Man in Town: The Twelve Commandments of Wealth By W. Randall Jones Business Plus; 242 pages...