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...closure was announced in a memo from Condé Nast CEO Chuck Townsend that brought other grim tidings: the company also folded Elegant Bride and Modern Bride into Brides magazine, which increased its circulation to monthly, and closed parenting title Cookie. But it was Gourmet - the grande dame of food periodicals - that struck most deeply at the hearts of epicures and magazine fans, who were bemused by the fact that Bon Appétit, the lower-brow of the company's two foodie titles, simmered on. (See the top 10 magazine covers...
...does evolution explain some of these complexities? Sexual attraction often boils down to what Darwin called "female choice." Modern women are the descendants of a long and unbroken line of ancestral mothers who made wise sexual choices. As descendants of these successful women, modern women carry with them the sexual psychology - the ancestral wisdom - that led to the success of their female forebears. So women find cues to health, status and protection to be sexually attractive. These are all qualities that led to better survival and reproductive outcomes.(Read about teen girls...
...cliché that "the good men are all taken, permanent bachelors or gay." And there's some truth to this. The number of truly desirable and available men is limited. So women are in sexual competition with other women for access to the most desirable men. Modern women are the descendants of ancestral mothers who succeeded in besting other women in these sexual competitions...
...price tag well into the millions. And now, President Obama is preparing to ramp up the “good war” in Afghanistan. The United States hasn’t won a ground war in over half a century, and now one of the smartest presidents in modern American history thinks he can win two of them. One struggles in vain to find the logic in this lunacy...
...pointed to other surveys suggesting that "around half" of the city's population supports the Gazprom tower. "We will of course never allow anyone to change the look of historic St. Petersburg. At the same time, we understand that the city has to develop. The city has to follow modern architecture, and every century, every era has its own historical monuments...