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...influences be reversed? Depends in part on the age of the individual. Also, in some cases the new environment may turn out to be not very different from the old one. For example, a child who is well-liked by her peers in first grade is likely to be popular in second grade as well, even with an entirely new set of classmates. So the peers may be reacting to characteristics the child already has, rather than influencing these characteristics...
...trait: When I do the terrorist fist bump thing, but instead of exploding out like a lot of people do I kind of implode a little, like suck my fist in, and I make this little sucking in noise, it’s really cool and pretty unique and popular. Best part about Harvard: The people Worst part about Harvard: The ghosts Describe yourself in three words: Right behind you In 15 minutes you are: Air-high fivin’ some bro or brolerina In 15 years you are: 7. Benjamin Button, bitch...
...survival of the fittest. But, University of Cambridge Professor Emeritus Gillian Beer, spoke last night of a creative and empathetic Darwin who wondered at the inner lives of oysters. Beer’s talk, entitled “Darwin and the Consciousness of Others,” acknowledged the popular view that Darwin is “the man who banished mind from the universe.” But, instead of a man who saw only mechanistic natural selection, Beer said that Darwin was preoccupied with similarities of consciousness between creatures. He believed that his greatest discovery was that...
...ourselves no favors by hiding the truth about what we spend." In specific terms, this means accounting for expenses like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as natural disasters as part of the normal budget process. But the bigger point is to differentiate Obama, who remains quite popular, from Bush, who remains quite unpopular. The move allows Obama to re-emphasize that he has not been in office long enough to be held responsible for the dizzying array of crises that the nation now faces...
...Bajaur in 2006 that Fazlullah seized control of a pirate radio transmitter and began delivering sulfurous sermons. "Mullah Radio," as it became known, quickly developed a following. Fazlullah's twice-daily addresses preached jihad and exhorted listeners to donate money and jewelery to his cause. He became particularly popular with female daytime listeners, whom he urged to not sleep with their husbands if they refused to fight alongside...