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Jasienska and her team tested 171 urban and rural Polish women during their menstrual cycle, according to the study. Women with up to a 1 millimeter difference in length between the second and fourth digits of their hands were considered symmetrical, and the rest were dubbed asymmetrical...

Author: By Nicole G. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Finger Symmetry Indicates Fertility | 4/11/2006 | See Source »

...show demonstrated, as Take the Lead does, the blend of precision and passion in an expert dance number. One girl in Take the Lead, watching a couple execute a hot tango, marvels that "It's like sex on hardwood." The contestants on Dancing With the Stars often lacked polish. But look, ma, they're sort-of dancing, in a way she might remember with appreciative nostalgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! | 4/7/2006 | See Source »

...think of myself as a spirit disguised in a human body,” Glück told the audience. She recounted that, when a translator asked her which gender she would prefer to be used in a Polish version of her poems, she answered: “Whatever makes the best of the pronoun, so that pronoun speaks to a human experience, not to a female experience...

Author: By Flavio S. Campos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pulitzer Poet Reads at Hillel | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

...DIED. STANISLAW LEM, 84, Polish writer of ruminative science-fiction classics, most famously Solaris, a metaphysical-psychological tale that spawned a 1972 film and a 2002 remake starring George Clooney; in Krakow, Poland. Lem, who battled communist censors?and tweaked them in novels such as The Futurological Congress?wrote more than 50 books that were translated into 40 languages and sold 27 million copies worldwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

DIED. STANISLAW LEM, 84, Polish writer of ruminative science-fiction classics, most famously Solaris, a metaphysical-psychological tale that spawned a 1972 film and a 2002 remake starring George Clooney; in Krakow, Poland. Lem, who battled communist-era censors--and tweaked them in novels like The Futurological Congress--wrote more than 50 books that were translated into 40 languages and sold 27 million copies worldwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 10, 2006 | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

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