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...coming up with a neater distillation of how girls and guys at a certain age view the opposite sex, all in words of one syllable. You try building a Broadway show around two amateur stars and coming up with something as effortlessly enjoyable as this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hopelessly Devoted to Grease | 8/21/2007 | See Source »

...This is the first study to pinpoint a robust sex difference in the red-green axis of human color vision,? says Yazhu Ling, co-author of the study. ?And this preference has an evolutionary advantage behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Why Girls Like Pink | 8/20/2007 | See Source »

Ling speculates that the color preference and women's ability to better discriminate red from green could have evolved due to sex-specific divisions of labor: while men hunted, women gatherered, and they had to be able to spot ripe berries and fruits. Another theory suggests that women, as caregivers who need to be particularly sensitive to, say, a child flushed with fever, have developed a sensitivity to reddish changes in skin color, a skill that enhances their abilities as the ?emphathizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Why Girls Like Pink | 8/20/2007 | See Source »

...sellout, because Bahr's draft, among other things, failed to affirm Germany's right to eventual reunification. In an effort to arouse popular opposition to the talks, somebody, apparently a Brandt enemy high in the government, leaked excerpts from the Bahr-Gromyko paper to Hamburg's sex-and-scandal newspaper Bild-Zeitung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Europe: The End of World War II | 8/20/2007 | See Source »

...clear as long ago as the late 80s, and When Harry Met Sally (not Larry) that talk was the new sex. But in that film Meg Ryan got laughs by faking an orgasm. If you go back to some of the great romantic comedies of the 30s and 40s - Bombshell, The Awful Truth, The Women, Midnight, Ball of Fire, The Lady Eve, Adam's Rib - you'll see that women got to be at least as witty as the men, and that was very witty indeed. And it wasn't only male writers inventing funny things for actresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Superbad: A Fine Bromance | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

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