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...What causes male hair loss? Ninety-nine percent of men who lose their hair lose it from genetic causes. That means they've inherited the pattern from somebody in the family. There's not a one-to-one relationship: Your parents may have full heads of hair and you may be balding. Or, you may have a full head of hair and your father could be bald and your grandfather could be bald. It comes from both sides of the family, the male and female side, about equally - contrary to the common myth that you inherit it from your mother...
Which is exactly what they found. The relationship is quite predictable and linear: if you pick a name that's 10% more popular than Ernest (Maxwell is the example that Kalist gave me), the population of Maxwells will have 3.7% fewer delinquents than the population of Ernests. Pretty neat, right...
...internet, in all its democratizing, transparent, instantly gratifying glory, is fundamentally changing the rules of business. Bloggers are usurping the role of the media élite; eBay and Amazon are forever altering the relationship between buyer and seller; a single disgruntled customer with a website can ruin a company's reputation. Google, which now handles some 70% of U.S. Internet searches and has become one of the world's most trusted brands, sits at the nexus of these changes. If beleaguered captains of industry hope to survive in the Internet age, Jarvis argues, it's worth considering what Google might...
According to Torchiana, Grassley’s bill does not require itemization of payments, so the public would not know the reason behind the industry relationship, which could be benign. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...probably safe to say that after the euphoria of their lobbying victory has died down, Indian officials will probably feel Holbrooke's breath on their neck. Some Indian analysts are already predicting this. C. Raja Mohan writes in the Indian Express that "reworking the India-Pakistan relationship will be an inevitable and important component" of Holbrooke's plans. "Whether India likes it or not, Washington will devote substantive diplomatic energies towards the subcontinent, and New Delhi will be drawn into this dynamic...