Word: reasonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wooing the women's vote was a big reason that Wolf was hired. But ironically, few were more surprised--or angrier--to learn that Gore's campaign was paying bigger bucks for Wolf's advice than the Vice President's allies among women political activists...
...year-old Carolyn Cross of Palo Alto, Calif., shopping online is way cooler than your average trip to the mall, and for one very important reason: "You don't have to get your parents to drive you, which they, like, never do," she says. Carolyn's dad Peter might beg to differ about that, but he does agree that letting Carolyn make purchases at RocketCash, an e-commerce site designed for teens, makes things easier on the family. "Carolyn gets to feel in control, but I feel good 'cause her shopping is limited to certain stores and certain amounts," Cross...
Similarly, there are animals that turn on their predecessor's offspring, the authors say. "How do [male tigers] respond to the cubs sired by their predecessors? The grisly answer is that they systematically search them out and kill them." The Darwinian reason, say Daly and Wilson, is that all animals, including humans, prefer to promote their own "genetic posterity." Unrelated youngsters don't necessarily fit into that scheme...
...more negative childhood situations--such as abuse, divorce of parents or living with a drunken family member--were more likely to have taken up smoking. They were about five times more likely to have started smoking by age 14 than those with no childhood trauma. That's another good reason to identify and help troubled kids...
...Secretary Roger Altman, bought American Media for $850 million, Pecker cast a cold eye on his new possessions, which had been losing circulation for five years. (The Enquirer, the Star and their wacky sibling, Weekly World News, sell a combined 4.4 million copies weekly, down 35% since 1994.) One reason, he contends, is that "the Enquirer and the Star were really competing against each other...