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...study's author Meredith Young, a cognitive psychologist, says the social comfort of a same-sex lunch partner probably makes a difference - but evolutionary instincts are also at play. The women are using food as a signal of attractiveness. "In past studies, when you compare the exact same woman either eating a meatball sub or a dainty salad, people find the salad eater more alluring and more desirable as a friend," she says. Young thinks that men, on the other hand, are probably focused on spending more money on the food instead of eating it, because evolutionary biology says that...
...this ugly landscape, the White House has come to realize that the President himself is going to have to play a more forceful and direct role - and soon, including an address to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9. Rather than leaving the legislative sausagemaking up to Congress, allies say, Obama will have to become far more specific about what he wants to see in a bill. He must spell out, for instance, precisely what he means by a public option, an issue that has grown to outsize proportion as an ideological flash point. The President may also need...
Teenagers are a famously reckless species. They floor the gas and experiment with drugs and play with guns; according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures, more than 16,000 young people die each year from unintentional injuries. The most common-sense explanation for teens' carelessness is that their brains just aren't developed enough to know better. But new research suggests that in the case of some teens, the culprit is just the opposite: the brain matures not too slowly but, perhaps, too quickly...
College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds e-mailed students earlier today to announce the unveiling of the much delayed application for J-Term housing. You can find it here. The app is pretty short, so you might as well fill it out soon and not play chicken with the Oct. 15 deadline. A couple of things to note after the jump...
...third largest economy. The jitters in Asia and the rest of the world are rooted in the fear that China will not be able to help pull the global economy from recession, a big blow to recovery hopes given the inability of the U.S., Europe and Japan to play that role at this time...