Word: shared
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...been both rising and falling. Spending on all prescriptions amounted to $100 billion last year and is growing 11% to 14% annually. Competition among generic drugmakers has depressed prices nearly 40% since 1995, saving consumers between $8 billion and $10 billion annually. As generics have got cheaper, their share of all drugs prescribed has risen to nearly 45%, almost tripling since 1984. On the other hand, since 1995 consumers have paid nearly 20% more for brand-name medications...
...different are we really? The revisionist evolutionary story tells us that both sexes share the legacy of our hunting, gathering, fighting, roaming ancestors. In addition, both sexes are confronted daily with the same kinds of hard choices: Do the fun thing or what your tribe considers the moral one? Go for security or adventure, sex or a handshake? And both sexes appear to have the same internal equipment for making these choices, equipment that we know as conscience or free will. But from a femaleist point of view, the whole business of difference is getting a little old: Different from...
...showed that despite the bullying of local males, the wily females were sneaking off so often that half their offspring turn out to be fathered by outsiders. Of bonobos, perhaps the less said the better, at least in a family magazine. These "pygmy chimps," as they are also known, share 98% of our genes and a tendency to what Freud termed "polymorphous perversity." They will have sex with anyone, male or female, as readily as we humans shake hands and apparently for the same purpose, as in, Good to see ya, let's rub genitals...
...GWYNNE, our Austin bureau chief, writes this week on the healing process that the town of Jasper, Texas, has undergone in the wake of a vicious race crime. "Some stories are sheer tragedy, not redeemed by anything," says Gwynne, who has seen his share of sad stories during his 10 years with TIME. "But here, in spite of the horrible deed, the community has repaired itself morally and spiritually. There has been real soul searching...
...familiar "words colliding" phenomenon. The two lovebirds share some of the same friends, who probably have strong opinions about the significant other. And if their friends are anything like mine, they won't hesitate in sharing their opinion of the boyfriend or girlfriend, be it positive or negative. This makes it hard to view the relationship objectively because friends continually inject feedback about the other person...