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...just hand-waving for now. If a long string of "ifs" can be laid to rest, today's achievement may be seen a real step forward - but one that's only visible in hindsight...
...success of New York's cultural cluster, its preeminence rests on shaky ground because of something else the city is well known for: breathtaking real estate prices. By the last quarter of 2007, a year when home prices in most of the rest of the U.S. were dropping, sometimes sharply, the average cost of a Manhattan apartment was a record $1.4 million, up 17.6% from one year before. Even across the East River in Brooklyn, the average price was a hefty $661,000, up from...
...worse. This is largely because the country's spectacular economic boom is driven by a self-sustaining flywheel of rapid productivity gains and increasing profits, which generates excess capital that is in turn invested in more manufacturing capacity. This is why the country's trade surplus with the rest of the world has been rising at an alarming pace, growing nearly 50% to a record $262 billion last year (although the trade gap narrowed in the final three months of 2007). Because many Chinese companies are awash with cash, traditional policies aimed at slowing investment growth, such as raising interest...
...playground or running water. The toilet, a pit latrine located at the far corner of the school compound, serves 1,500 students. Only two of the 23 female teachers have graduated from high school. Half the second-grade students, ranging in age from 7 to 12, can read; the rest just recite from memory. The freedom to study is a blessing, but Sarwary knows it is not nearly enough. "Our students have talent and a passion for learning I've never seen before," says the slim, stylish 33-year-old. "But we still have problems...
...does one female signal the rest? The answer is almost certainly smell. Pheromones-or scent-signaling chemicals-are known to exist among animals, and while scientists have had a hard time unraveling the pheromonal system in humans, they have isolated a few of the compounds. One type, known as driver pheromones, appears to affect the endocrine systems of others. Since the endocrine system plays a critical role in the timing of menstruation, there is at least a strong circumstantial case that the two are linked. "It's thought that there is a driver female who gives off something that changes...