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...that I don't think killing horses is cruel. It's just that I think killing chickens, pigs, sheep and cows is equally bad. Morality based on aesthetics is pretty shallow. In fact, the only weird part about eating horse was that, unlike with bacon or rib eye, we kept picturing the animal, which was kind of gross. Nonetheless, until I decide to stop my less-than-noble practice of eating other animals, I've got little choice but to order up some more horse...
...toll that lumber imports have taken on the area's timber economy and that job exports have squeezed from its manufacturing sector. In pledging $50 million over the next five years for the El Dorado Promise, the company not only can "give back" to the community but rebuild its shallow talent pool - a "wonderful confluence" of interests, Deming says. "Surprise, joy gratitude - the reaction in El Dorado has been heartwarming," Deming adds. "We're still seeing...
...that is an illusion. The mirror is really a pool of liquid mercury in a shallow wood container. A touch would send ripples racing across its surface, and it must always aim straight up to retain its curvature. As the container is slowly rotated on a turntable; making one revolution every six seconds, the mercury rises gently toward the edges and dips in the middle, the way coffee does when it is stirred in a cup. In perfect deference to the laws of physics, the metal's highly reflective surface takes the form of a parabola, the shape of solid...
Researchers figured something similar had to be happening in burnout victims. But rather than finding a prominent cortisol peak, investigators discovered a shallow bump in the morning followed by a low, flattened level throughout the day. Intriguingly, such blunted cortisol responses are also common among Holocaust survivors, rape victims and soldiers suffering from PTSD. The difference seems to be that people with PTSD are much more sensitive to cortisol at even these low levels than those with burnout. "We used to blame everything on high cortisol," says Rachel Yehuda, a neurochemist and PTSD expert at the Mount Sinai School...
...shallow-minded alumni booster organizations that donate their own, tax-deductible millions - making sure the jocks sleep in five-star hotels on the road while engineering majors back on campus scrape by to pay skyrocketing tuitions - only affirm that warped culture. The booster clubs and athletic departments counter that university classrooms and non-major sports benefit from the football and basketball riches...