Word: points
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...mock. Ali G is a self-deluding white guy who yearns to be a black rapper. Borat is a rube and an anti-Semite. This is why the inevitable debate over whether the new film is a critique of homophobia or an incitement to more of it misses the point. Brüno sees everybody in the pejorative, including Brüno, who is trivial, narcissistic, mean to his devoted assistant and obsessed with cheesy fame. But even so, he's preferable to a lot of the people he meets, with their ignorance and prejudice, hypocrisy and primitive rage...
...work more, that can be near impossible in a recession. And in fact, according to BLS data released last week, not only are married women now working fewer hours per week on average than before the recession began, but also married women's working hours are at their lowest point since 1964, the year these numbers started being tracked...
Such findings support a widely held theory by happiness researchers that a person's level of satisfaction is determined largely by character and attitudes - less by external factors, like money or disability - and that we tend to return to our personal set point. But another branch of research - the one that leads to bestselling books and, at the conference, sessions that were packed to the point of fire-code violation - suggests that set point can be modified, and that people can learn to be happier...
...generate human IVD sperm that look like normally developed sperm and can get the artificially created germ cells to fertilize an egg, then he can allow the resulting embryo to develop for 14 days - according to U.K. law, embryos created for research purposes must be destroyed at that point. "We would need to study that embryo before we provide any clinical applications," he says...
What sparked the idea for your book? It really began with the animal research that I was doing in my lab. The animals I worked with were doing a tremendously good job of finding their way and using landmarks. At some point, my students and I had the idea of trying to do some similar experiments with human beings. Compared to any animal that I've ever studied or read about, I would say that the average urban person kind of wanders around in a semi-lost state. In traditional way-finding cultures like the Inuit in the Arctic...