Word: mates
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...becoming an evolutionary winner is to hit just the right level of aggression. Too little, and the organism may be muscled out by competitors. Too much, and it may die in battle without reproducing, or use up time and energy in fighting while competitors steal its food or mate. Aggression, in other words, pays off only when the cost-benefit ratio makes it a workable strategy...
Need to check out a job applicant? Get rid of some electronic bugs? Find out about the extracurricular activities of a wandering mate? Look into a credit rating? Nick Beltrante-a remarkably active private eye-may be your...
...another, accumulating credits, and a paucity of genuine academic knowledge. His list of truncated enrollments growing, he dauntlessly pursues the elusive college degree at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. There, in a gut history course called George Washington One, Gene meets Louise Fern, teacher and future room/bed mate...
...U.S.C. he met his wife Marcia, who has become a top film editor. In addition to Star Wars, she has cut Scorsese's Taxi Driver and his upcoming New York, New York. About that time, Lucas also met Coppola, who has become a soul mate. Says Lucas: "We are opposites. If Francis says black, I say white. He is impulsive, always on the edge of trouble. I am inherently conservative. We complement each other." When he was only 23, Lucas received backing for THX-1138, an expansion of a science fiction short he had started at U.S.C. Though...
...creature that he dibs "flounder" has to be fended off with a barbed wire fence. Instead of Satan, SIN features a lithe delinquent called Ssss, who is bad in a soulful rather than a derogatory way. When man's ancestor decides that a maid is more desirable than a mate, the first woman indulges in an illicit love affair with Ssss, multiplying and acquiring the name of Evil (presumably the derivation of Eve) as a result. In short, the situation in paradise runs refreshingly amok for a while. So it's sort of disappointing when propriety quashes revisionism, becoming...