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...freedom to conceive is limited only by the availability of willing partners, but the demands of providing for too big a brood are a powerful incentive to limit your pairings to the female who will give you just a few strong young. For that reason, no sooner do we reach sexual maturity than we learn to look for signals of good genes and reproductive fitness in potential partners and, importantly, to display them ourselves. "Every living human is a descendant of a long line of successful maters," says David Buss, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin...
...would like to create a more equitable society by narrowing the gap between rich and poor to create a harmonious society in which every Chinese can share in the wealth of economic growth. Hu has successfully built a good image of China's peaceful rise and expanded China's reach around the world during the past five years. His confidence and wisdom in handling internal and external affairs is a marvelous asset that will eventually encourage the Chinese people to accelerate political reform. Song Xiaowen, ZHONGLI CITY, TAIWAN...
...done any climbing and we made six first ascents of mountains over 20,000 feet. That sort of experience is very difficult to come by these days. There are still lots of mountains around, but all the big ones have been done. Reinhold Messner was the first to reach the summit of all the 8,000-meter peaks [a feat the Italian mountaineer completed...
...days, but the wind chill factor must have been very considerable. And I really felt that night, with the wind blowing as it was, that we might have trouble with the summit. I have never been the sort of person who is absolutely confident that he is going to reach the summit of any mountain. I was always very much aware of the fact that weather conditions or snow conditions could make getting to the summit difficult or even impossible. But early in the morning the wind had eased off. There was still wind...
...operates as an agent of the state, and should thus be forced to surrender police records upon request just as any other police department would. The University disagreed, arguing that since HUPD’s records are the property of the University, a private entity, they are beyond the reach of public record release laws.Though we don’t believe that, for example, a private security firm with no police authority should have to release its internal records to the public, HUPD—like any other deputized campus police department—represents a patently different case...