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...traits as aggression, competitiveness and risk taking, things we still think of as male behavior, are linked to the fact that men's bodies produce far more testosterone than women's bodies. His answer--a lot--was offered more as an intuition than a conclusion, but it produced a spate of fang baring among some higher primates in the media and scientific world, since it implies that gender differences owe more to biology than many people would like to believe. Three researchers wrote the Times to complain that Sullivan had overstated their thinking. In the online magazine Slate, columnist Judith...
...using the safer cigarettes because they believe they annoy smokers - who have to relight their butts if they take too much time between drags - and cost more to produce. The anti-tobacco lobby, of course, is cheering the news and predicting that it could open the industry to another spate of lawsuits. But, says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders, while the measure could help show that tobacco firms have held out on making cigarettes safer to a certain extent, plaintiffs would have "a serious uphill battle" in proving tobacco companies culpable of deaths caused by untended cigarettes...
...best triathletes, competing at an Olympics for the first time, will have a view of Sydney's two favorite structures as they swim: the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House. But the week after next, at the test event, no one will be thinking about the view. A spate of shark attacks and sightings around Sydney Harbour, including two attacks in two days on schoolboy rowers, has triggered panic among some competitors. "The Europeans are pretty worried about it," says 1997 world champion Chris McCormack. "They're used to swimming in freshwater lakes, where the most you'll find...
HOFFMAN: The past decade has brought a spate of books sounding the death knell for a host of subjects. Francis Fukuyama served up The End of History and David Lindley The End of Physics. But your more sweeping work The End of Science (1997) attracted a lot more attention and controversy--and with good reason. The idea that science may have had its run--that we've discovered all we can realistically expect to discover and that anything we come up with in the future will be pretty much small-bore stuff--left people either intrigued or outraged. With today...
...MADE FLESH. But it was also here last year that Muslim riots broke out when Christians objected to a mosque going up nearby. No disturbances rent the peace during the Pope's two-hour Mass, however, perhaps because a Muslim prayer leader preached against disturbances after a brief spate of shouts and whistles, or perhaps because the threat of violence was exaggerated...