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...identified as such. After careful examination of the brain samples, he found that the INAH-3 areas of most of the women and homosexual men were about the same size. In straight men this region was on average twice as large -- or about the size of a grain of sand...
...need access to free prenatal care. Companies should provide flextime and compressed schedules for working parents so that they can have more time with their families. We need mortgage subsidies for young families and tougher enforcement of child-support laws. We should throw sand in the machinery of divorce, force parents to think about what they are doing. We must hold parents accountable for the welfare of their children, and ourselves responsible for the care of America's youth. Otherwise we will not make it. Our standard of living will steadily decline. And the truth is, only a society that...
...borrow sophisticated metal alloys, titanium lugs, carbon-fiber tubing and other materials from the aerospace industry for lightweight strength. Average weight: 28 lbs., vs. 20 lbs. for a far more fragile touring bike. Perhaps most important, ATBs feature flat handlebars for upright seating and thick tires that take to sand and gravel as easily as to pavement. While these features have practical appeal for rough-riding wilderness cyclists, the changes also take the hassle out of bike riding for ordinary pedal pushers who never stray more than a mile or two from the nearest McDonald...
...hardest to cap, the high- pressure wells, have yet to be seriously tackled. In the meantime, giant lakes of oil have formed, covering an estimated 1 million Iraqi antipersonnel mines and contaminating about 1.2 billion cu. ft. of soil. As each day passes, the oil soaks deeper into the sand and the lakes expand in area and volume...
...other words, play is children's work, and finding the right materials -- stories, drama, clay, blocks, sand, water, paints -- really means finding the tools for reasoning and maturing. "What's basic and important to any young child's education," says Shelley Lindauer, head of the Lab School Preeducation Program at Utah State University, "is curiosity and observation. It's much more important to know how to go about finding an answer -- not a right answer...