Word: socialism
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...school journalism, perhaps, but with a twist. And in the age of Twitter and hyper-personalized social-networking sites, the publishers may have discovered a model that could set it apart from the other staid papers in a dying industry...
...According to their findings, it was stout, slightly plump (but not obese) women who tended to have more children - "Women with very low body fat don't ovulate," Stearns explains - as did women with lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Using a sophisticated statistical analysis that controlled for any social or cultural factors that could impact childbearing, researchers determined that these characteristics were passed on genetically from mothers to daughters and granddaughters...
Years ago, social scientists introduced the broken-windows theory of crime control, which posited that if a neighborhood looked orderly and cared for - with no graffiti or broken windows - potential wrongdoers would be dissuaded from committing crimes there. Now psychologists have proposed a similar theory, which suggests that people can be induced to behave virtuously when their environment smells as clean as it looks...
...eloquent. The script clearly didn't help there, and Mark Zuckerberg sees a similarly awkward portrayal in The Social Network complete with terrible dialogue. So, though Eisenberg's acting skills are only 2 stars, he does seem perfectly fitted for this role—looking just like Mark Zuckerberg and seemingly able to fulfill the hopes of the movie's scriptwriter...
Derrick Asiedu ’12, a Crimson editorial writer, is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House...