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...Grammer writes, although attractive features themselves are “cross-culturally universal,” socio-economic factors within cultures do modify them slightly. Maybe our abundant resources have spoiled us into thinking that affluence is more attractive than health. Rather than maintain a physique that could outrun a lion, we showcase our ability to outspend a monarch. And our tokens of wealth—expensive, designer clothes—are best displayed on skinny, sickly-looking bodies. I couldn’t blame Europeans for looking wealthy. But nothing changes the fact that you’d have...
...good news for all sides is that over the course of this long argument, researchers have learned more about how stem cells work, and the science has outrun the politics. Adult cells, such as those found in bone marrow, were thought to be less valuable than embryonic cells, which are "pluripotent" master cells that can turn into anything from a brain cell to a toenail. But adult cells may be more elastic than scientists thought, and could offer shortcuts to treatment that embryonic cells can't match...
...cows before it has run out of customers. Stonyfield is the third largest player in the category, with 90% of the $155 million organics segment and 6% of overall yogurt sales, but it has been forced to scramble to find more organic milk as sales outrun its supply...
...hand-to-hand combat (or, as is inexplicably the case here, stick fighting). He is also a botanist with an Edenic garden, a man with connections of every sort in several nations, and the inventor of a bulletproof lead coat—in 1884. He is never required to outrun a speeding bullet or stop the passage of time, but it wouldn’t exactly come as a surprise if he could. (At least Holmes had a drug problem to humanize...
Snowboarding starts with the Flying Tomato. "Right now, he's up here," says U.S. half-pipe coach Bud Keene of White, hand raised high above his head. "Rarefied air." A prodigy, White would outrun the adults on Southern California's Big Bear Mountain--going backward. His consecutive 1080s (three complete rotations in the air, the toughest trick in the sport) secured his win last week. Afterward, White playfully set his sights on U.S. figure skater Sasha Cohen ("I hope she dates gold medalists") and talked of a rendezvous with the Summer Olympics if skateboarding, the other action sport in which...