Word: mattered
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...After a first round bye, Friedman--ranked No. 17 and seeded No. 4 in the tournament--came out ready for action against Columbia's Brad Clement. He collected the win with a pin at 4:22 in the match to advance to the semis to face Penn's Brett Matter, No. 4 in the country. Friedman fell to Matter 6-2 then went up against No. 6 Ryan Bernholz of Lehigh. Freidman lost a close 6-3 bout to finish fourth...
...side will call an elephant and the other will call a mouse." Trouble is, some members of the Albanian delegation saw through that and demanded a written guarantee of eventual independence. No way, said NATO. "Sure, they can ask for it," Hill adds, "but getting it is another matter. Today, the international community does not support the idea of an independent Kosovo. It's not a right they have...
Well, why not? For that matter, why not independent Kurdistan? Or Chechnya or East Timor or Quebec? Once you start tinkering with global cartography, everyone wants his say. The unintended consequences of malleable borders scare away all but the most arrogant of statesmen. Yet Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sounded ready to try it last week: "Great nations who understand the importance of sovereignty at various times cede various portions of it in order to achieve some better good for their country...
...sexuality, lawyers and homemakers marking their menopause by throwing a party or climbing Mont Blanc. Call them "estronauts," these new bio-positive women, for their ability to feel the delicious tug of the hormonal tides as well as the gleaming challenge of the mountain peaks. Or--what does it matter?--just call them human...
...only cure for bad science is more science, and the story of human evolution has been evolving pretty rapidly itself. There were always plenty of prima facie reasons to doubt the Mr. and Mrs. Man-the-Hunter version of our collective biography, such as the little matter of size, or, in science-speak, "sexual dimorphism." If men and women evolved so differently, then why aren't men a whole lot bigger than they are? In fact, humans display a smaller size disparity between the sexes than do many of our ape cousins--suggesting (though not proving) that early...