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...none of this suggests that within a species - Homo sapiens, say - brain size tells you a lick about intellect. Across the centuries, eugenicists and practitioners of other junk sciences argued that cranial volume could reveal important things about the intelligence or other traits of one race compared with another. That was rubbish. The new carnivore studies, by contrast, offer a tantalizing window into the things that help an entire species evolve the way it does - or, more important, the things that...
...None of the people of Christchurch would be surprised to learn of Ellis' green fingers. The South Island's largest city is obsessive about greenery, famed for its meticulously manicured greenswards - many of them rose gardens in the English style - and fully deserving of its "Garden City" tagline. Edwardian punts float down the peaceful, winding river Avon, while helmeted sightseers glide past on futuristic Segway transporters. This combination of the genteel and the modern is typical of the place, which offers plenty of artistic, culinary and recreational opportunities against a panoramic backdrop of ocean, peaks and plains. "Christchurch...
...victim or giving her swipe card—which grants access to Harvard dorms—to anyone that day. “I have no knowledge of anything that happened,” Campbell told the Globe in an interview monitored by her lawyer. “None, whatsoever.” In their communications with Campbell and her attorney, Harvard administrators did not cite specific reasons for their decision to send Campbell off campus and bar her from graduating, simply attributing her removal to “the recent shooting,” Karp said...
...poured into the economic system by the Fed and other central banks. Before anyone figures out for sure why things have started to improve, it will be too late to matter for anyone other than the historians. There will be another financial and market catastrophe in the fall, if none of the remedies has worked. The question of what caused the recession and how it can be vanquished will become a global obsession, again. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...collective-bargaining agreement. Although Sotomayor, who was raised in a housing project a few miles from Yankee Stadium in the South Bronx, admitted that "I know nothing about this, except what a common layperson reads in the New York Times," she also told the litigators that "I hope none of you assumed ... that my lack of knowledge of any of the intimate details of your dispute meant I was not a baseball fan. You can't grow up in the South Bronx without knowing about baseball." (Read about the 1994 baseball strike...