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...will it secure the safety of its citizens from extremists and insurgents? How will it push economic growth and liberalization forward without triggering massive unemployment or environmental calamity? Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who begins a second term, may well have answers to those questions but he did not reveal them during the campaign. Columnist Anand Giridharadas, writing for the New York Times, summed up the Indian vote as a "big election about small things...
Demauro declined to reveal how much money she won, but gambling experts estimate that if she made good bets, her winnings were probably in the hundreds of thousands; expert bets would have put them in the millions. Demauro and Capra spent the rest of their holiday weekend in Atlantic City, and even returned to the same craps table two nights later - but only as spectators. "The expectations were too high," she says. "I wasn't ready to be the shooter again...
Tweeting Too Hard lists Twitter usernames for all its submissions, though like many things on the Internet, the identities of the self-important scribes are usually unknown. But some readily reveal themselves, such as the much scorned author of this piece of humility: "I love how some dudes hate me for dating their fantasy girl, as if they were going to if I hadn't." That, lucky fantasy girls, is musician John Mayer...
...none of this suggests that within a species - Homo sapiens, say - brain size tells you a lick about intellect. Across the centuries, eugenicists and practitioners of other junk sciences argued that cranial volume could reveal important things about the intelligence or other traits of one race compared with another. That was rubbish. The new carnivore studies, by contrast, offer a tantalizing window into the things that help an entire species evolve the way it does - or, more important, the things that...
...eliminate the small but slowly growing number of Muslim headscarves in classrooms. As it did when France issued its dangerous-cults list, the U.S. government officially responded to the law banning religious objects with a request that Paris make greater efforts to respect religious freedoms. (Read "'Veil Wars' Reveal Europe's Intolerance...