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...What those two events did, especially having my child, was to tie me to life in a real way that I hadn’t been before. I had just never thought about those sorts of questions and I wanted to bring them together. I couldn’t do it philosophically because the way I had been trained philosophically just wouldn’t allow it; I couldn’t make it precise enough. I love the fact that literature is not precise, that fiction is not precise. It can do justice to the messiness, the confusion...
...forget about sports. Maybe there’s a way we can spread open access to other “more important” fields such as education and politics. Maybe if everyone had access to a quality education, we’d see who the real brains of the country are. Or if there were more transparency about key political issues, such as giving everyday citizens a chance to voice their opinions, then we’d find out what the best ideas really are. As rowing seems to understand, it’s only when everyone can compete...
...inevitable scene where the token friend assures the hero or heroine that he or she really is a great person, they have so much going for them, etc. Wings, a new dating Web site developed by four Harvard Business School and College grads, brings such real-life reassurances to cyberspace, at the service of hopeful singles...
...Your wingmen in real life can help you in the same way in the online dating world,” explained Sunil S. Nagaraj HBS ’09, C.E.O. of Triangulate Corporation, which created the application. “Wings lets you know who I am, rather than how good I am at writing profiles...
Another hurdle to a consensus on how to deal with sex ambiguity is the fact that there is very little scientific data on whether DSDs confer any real advantages to athletes. In the 2008 paper "Intersex and the Olympic Games," Robert Ritchie, a urological surgeon at Oxford University, noted, "There is no evidence that female athletes with DSD have displayed any sports-relevant physical attributes which have not been seen in biologically normal female athletes...