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...dating really that hard? Sociologists have long agreed that the two key factors of mate choice are proximity and timing. We choose from those around us, generally two to five years after we finish our education. But at least one of those pillars is eroding. Online dating has meant that our pool of potential mates is much bigger. The opportunity cost of giving up on a potential suitor is lower. And it's more work to find the wheat in all that chaff...
...were any, are behind us, and deep down, you sense that the Lost know it. That knowledge gives the men an air of faded grandeur that's borderline Faulknerian. In their lameness, their expired '70s-era cool, they're emblematic of an America in decline. "The whole thing was meant to feel almost like they're living on past glory," Houser says. "They think they're the last true Americans, the outlaws, the free." But like Niko - who appears periodically in Johnny's story and is an uncanny presence, since he's now outside the player's control - Johnny watches...
Somehow, the "China question" managed to slumber largely undisturbed throughout the presidential election--which was probably just as well. It meant that Obama and Clinton could start thinking about China anew, without being encumbered by too many pre-existing political commitments...
...about it.“Each of the photography exhibitions that we have done has been designed to raise different questions about the way we see the world and to attract new audiences,” says Elisabeth Werby, the executive director of HMNH. “They are meant to be intriguing and provocative exhibitions.”Purcell, who has frequented natural history museums for years, also collaborated with the late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould on three books (including “Crossing Over Where Art and Science Meet”). She is living proof that interdisciplinary researchers...
...That Into You” is both a close adaptation and wide interpretation of its original text. At its start, the film stays faithful to the book in both spirit and form, using endearing but direct humor and exaggerated cases to prove the authors’ points. Gigi is meant to represent the universal female voice—constantly worrying, obsessing, overanalyzing, and most of all, making excuses for men. Alex is the suave manager of a bar, who coolly rejects girls on a regular basis but nevertheless decides to take Gigi under his wing. He becomes the voice...