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Human beings have spent 99 percent of their existence as hunter-gatherers, a profession for which they remain genetically adapted. The distinction between hunters and gatherers is, for the most part, a sexual one: 50,000 years ago, men single-mindedly focused on their prey in the sub-Saharan plain while women became adept at multi-tasking, gathering a variety of foods and ensuring the safety of their offspring. Our current gender-stratified social system did not emerge from a philosophical abyss; it evolved over tens of thousands of years as a function of the behavioral characteristics that allowed...
...years ago. A child wanders alone, a little way off from a group. Intersecting their paths is a one-legged man whose confident pace gives no clue as to how he propelled himself, and four tall men running fast, their heels skidding as they sped - were they hunters or prey...
...dreams of the women’s advocacy groups are realized at Harvard, the new women’s center runs the risk of falling prey to this dystopic vision of radical feminism, which will inevitably alienate so many of the women the center is meant to serve. A major purpose of a women’s center must be to empower moderate women, not the feminazis who already take their modern conception of womanhood to an extreme. Erring on the side of this extremism are many of the Harvard women’s groups leading the women?...
...this endeavor. Evidence of this commitment is the College’s decision to hire a full-time director of the women’s center by the end of this semester. We can confidently say that this time, the women’s center will not fall prey to the pitfalls that have doomed it in the past...
...terrified family, a collection of pub names that a novelist couldn't improve upon, and, if the many early breaks in the case continue, a quick win for the police. The business started with what's known in the trade as a "tiger kidnapping." (The tiger, see, stalks its prey.) Colin Dixon, 51, the manager of a security depot that stores money for commercial banks and the Bank of England, was driving past the Three Squirrels pub in Kent, southeast of London, when a car with men disguised as police officers forced him off the road. Two other fake cops...