Word: mattered
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Beginning in the '70s, women began to elbow their way into the field and develop serious alternatives to the old, male-centered theory of human evolution. It shouldn't matter, of course, what sex the scientist is, but women had their own reasons for being suspicious of the dominant paradigm. The first revisionist blow came in the mid-'70s, when anthropologists Adrienne Zihlman and Nancy Tanner pointed out that among surviving "hunting" peoples, most of the community's calories--up to 70%--come from plant food patiently gathered by women, not meat heroically captured by men. The evidence for Stone...
...defense during the impeachment proceedings, as propounded by M.I.T. cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker in the New Yorker. It's in the male's genetic self-interest to impregnate as many females as possible, while the female usually can produce only a dozen or so offspring in her lifetime no matter how much she messes around, so why should she try? Furthermore, the female consort of man-the-hunter didn't dare cheat on him lest he stomp off and take the zebra carcass with him. So Hillary fumes, Monica pines, and Bill, propelled mindlessly by his evolutionary male legacy, looks...
Expression: "He tends to talk at a higher pitch and a louder volume in areas that don't really matter...
...Learning in Retirement program offers everything from calligraphy to quantum physics, taught by college professors who have retired and moved to the Ashland area. Kellogg is enrolled in a course called Secrets of the Brain. He advises, "One thing a retired person should do is exercise that gray matter above their shoulders...
...York City police confiscated Francisco Almonte's car. Shortly after he slammed into a taxi last week, the 57-year-old Queens resident took a Breathalyzer test that showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19, almost twice the legal limit of 0.10. Then there was the matter of his eight previous arrests for drunk driving. The grumbling began later, when the N.Y.P.D. took possession of a 1988 Acura that belonged to librarian Pavel Grinberg. The Polish immigrant, 28, who had been swerving when police pulled him over, was legally drunk at a more modest 0.11 blood-alcohol level...