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...chimps--the researchers suggest that lack of MYH16 made it possible for our ancestors to evolve smaller jaw muscles some 2 million years ago. That loss in muscle strength, they say, allowed the braincase and brain to grow larger. It's a controversial claim, one disputed by anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University. "Brains don't expand because they were permitted to do so," he says. "They expand because they were selected"--because they conferred extra reproductive success on their owners, perhaps by allowing them to hunt more effectively than the competition...
...force-fed through a tube inserted into their throats. Those that do not prematurely die in the process of being overfed become grossly overweight, and they struggle to walk, stand up, even breathe. It is not Chicago's new law that is outrageous but the inhumane luxury it prohibits. Owen Lubozynski Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. In mocking Chicago's newly enacted foie-gras ban, your writer insults not only the compassionate individuals who worked to pass this law but also the vast majority of U.S. citizens - nearly 80% of whom, according to a Zogby poll, support an end to foie-gras...
...OWEN LUBOZYNSKI Minneapolis, Minn...
...girlfriends' mom than by his girlfriends, then I was going to be filthy rich. But then Jamie added that I also had to walk the line between having women adore me and having men not hate me. That was setting the bar kind of high. After all, if Owen had those things, he'd be Bond...
Then Jamie surprised me by asking me to name a product I felt passion for?something I had a "special story" about. That seemed like backward '50s-think. Who cares what I like? I like whoever is going to pay me the most. Does she think Clive Owen likes to rub man lotions all over his body? Still, Jamie kept pressing the passion issue. So I blurted something out like "dessert wine and tea." There was a long silence. "Whoa, never heard that one before," she said. "That's probably not where the money...