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...taking samples of their saliva and by evaluating the “maleness” of their faces—a larger jaw and other measures imply a greater influx of testosterone during puberty, according to Apicella. “This financial risk taking in men is the modern equivalent of male-to-male combat,” said Apicella, who found in a previous study that men with lower voices tend to father more children than men with higher voices. Apicella’s co-author, Anna S. J. Dreber, a visiting researcher from the Stockholm School of Economics...
...secret is exposed. The American economy is facing a crisis unprecedented in modern times only by the Great Depression. Secretary Paulson is demanding our trust along with a $700 billion check—we should give him neither. It is illogical and rash to grant Paulson $700 billion when he was unable to prevent the crisis in the first place, or even to sense it was coming. As a guardian of the American economy in one of the highest offices in the nation, he has failed at his post. Some might argue that the economic factors leading to this crisis...
There is a certain post-structuralist vibration to this modern political climate of spin wars and smear campaigns; operatives on both sides of the aisle seem to share—have been forced to share—the belief that ‘truth’ is an abstraction, and that discourse, true or false, governs all. Yet, for all the Foucauldian interventions of the candidates’ various éminences grises, there remains a definite dimension of political campaigns that remains out of any advisor’s control—not because it is lofty and glacial...
...telling me about the perfume and the sunglasses, and then when the shop opened, I said, "Let's have a look." And it fit! So I thought it was the right moment. I was tired of narrow shoulders and things like this. I suddenly liked this post-Italian updated modern look. Modern because Tom's clothes have nothing to do with the old clothes. It's the idea of them. It shares the mood. But in fact they are made differently, and also, in ready-to-wear, this kind of quality didn't exist. They are beautifully made. They...
...brain-child of Jacoby, and it will be taught by Michael Russem, a local printer and book designer who is the press’s first visiting artist. The class consists of a series of lectures and workshops, as well as trips to Firefly Press in Allston, a modern letterpress shop, and to Houghton Library. Russem was initially worried that there wouldn’t be enough demand for the course. But after registration closed Sunday night and there were enough applications to fill the class three times over, his concern turned to the Press itself. Years of being under...