Word: regionality
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...Hayes or John Kerry. The reason so few women are in politics may be the same as the reason so few of them do comedy: people just don’t think women can be funny. Popular belief seems to locate the sense of humor in an anatomical region conspicuously absent from the average female. Indeed, in 2007, researchers found that women expect less from jokes than men do. They laugh more and at weaker punchlines than their male counterparts, although, when pressed, they admit that they find fewer things actually funny. There are, apparently, evolutionary reasons for this?...
...safety. Patrick eventually returned home, but continued to hear angels and the voice of the Irish, which encouraged him to return to walk amongst the Irish once more. After becoming a consecrated bishop, Patrick returned to Ireland and spent the rest of his life bringing Christianity to the region. People in the United States began observing the holiday after massive Irish immigration and the establishment of Irish communities in the early 20th century. But the focus of the day has shifted from religious ceremonies to ethnic pride and parties in modern times. “Fun, green, drunkenness...
Borkin is a part of the Astronomical Medicine team—composed of seven researchers—whose project is to chart and analyze streams of stellar mass emanating from new stars in the star-forming region called Perseus...
...thesis, Borkin ended up discovering a multitude of new outflows in the Perseus region, and her work eventually evolved into a full-fledged interdisciplinary research project. Subsequent research has allowed the team, which has grown to seven members plus several other affiliated researchers, to double the number of known stellar outflows in Perseus...
...next couple of decades, the Dalai Lama's presence in India became almost a badge of honor for Delhi-living proof that democratic India was freer and more tolerant than its authoritarian neighbor. Over the last decade, though, and especially since Delhi formally recognized the Tibetan autonomous region as part of China in 2003, India has taken a sterner line on Tibetan protests, discouraging them before they can start and breaking them up when they do. The latest crackdown is further proof of shifting loyalties, says B. Tsering, head of the Tibetan Women's Association. "Marches have been stopped before...