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...causes of the rise: After hailing the results of its latest survey, the NEA's chairman asks the obvious follow-up: "What happened in the past six years to revitalize American literary reading?" His answer is disappointing: "There is no statistical answer to this question." Not one to let the absence of facts spoil a good story, Gioia then goes on to propose that perhaps the sheer volume of electronic entertainment and communication we're exposed to has created a backlash of sorts, prompting a reading renaissance. But as L.A. Times reporter Carolyn Kellogg points out, is it really accurate...
Makrides asked 272 nursing moms who had given birth prematurely to take six omega-3 capsules a day, to mimic the 1% ratio that full-term babies receive in their final months in the womb. A control group of 273 similar moms took six capsules of soy, a placebo. Overall, the two groups showed no differences in cognitive tests 18 months later, but when Makrides looked at the data by gender, she found that girls getting the omega-3 supplemented breast milk did slightly better than girls receiving regular milk. The smallest premature babies also showed more benefit from...
...quarter is known, remains a male bastion. As it turns out, that could have more to do with biology than misogyny. In a study by scientists from the University of Cambridge, male City traders who had been exposed to high levels of testosterone in the womb were on average six times more profitable than those exposed to low levels of the hormone...
...begins the tale of The Prince's Waitress Wife, by Sarah Morgan (out Feb. 1, just in time for the start of the Six Nations European season), the first of eight rugby-themed romances from Mills & Boon, the iconic publishers of romance novels like Virgin Mistress, Scandalous Love-Child. According to Clare Somerville, director of sales and marketing, the rough-and-tumble world of rugby fits snugly into the publisher's literary field of play. "[The books] have all the elements of a quintessential Mills & Boon romance: jet-set locations, hunky alpha-male heroes...
...puck in the corners when the team did manage to mount attacks in the Yale zone.The Bulldogs’ aggressive play drew seven Harvard penalties on the night, including several in the second period, interrupting the momentum that the Crimson struggled to build all night. Yale successfully killed all six of Harvard’s power-play attempts.“Yale’s a good team. They always play us hard, especially this year. They’re very skilled and they work hard all over the ice,” co-captain Jimmy Fraser said...