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...Whatever happens, Sea the Stars' success has brought out the best in sport. Racehorses aren't rewarded for their efforts with sneaker contracts and salary hikes. In an age of gazillionaire baseball players and soccer stars, a competitor that races for nothing other than a win lifts the image of sport and the spirit of fans. It's what made Seabiscuit so popular during the Depression - and what makes Sea the Stars so illustrious...
...does evolution explain some of these complexities? Sexual attraction often boils down to what Darwin called "female choice." Modern women are the descendants of a long and unbroken line of ancestral mothers who made wise sexual choices. As descendants of these successful women, modern women carry with them the sexual psychology - the ancestral wisdom - that led to the success of their female forebears. So women find cues to health, status and protection to be sexually attractive. These are all qualities that led to better survival and reproductive outcomes.(Read about teen girls...
David N. Campbell, executive director of the Hands on Disaster Response, an organization that has already sent a team to assess the situation in the Philippines, said he was skeptical about the success of groups working from afar...
...times the ad was viewed, it was clicked on by 163 people. In case we don't feel up to doing the math, HCL lets us know that this transfers to a click through rate of 0.10 percent. The library views the ad as a success, citing 0.04 percent as the click-through rate "that is typically considered successful in direct mail and online" and calling it "'a highly efficient and cost-effective way of communicating with our students,'” in the words of Michael Hemment, Head of Research and Learning Technology...
...sometimes too collaborative, too willing to compromise on matters of both policy and principle. His Achilles heel is that he wants everyone to like him. Indeed, so far, Obama has failed to make the transition from the consensus politics of campaigning to the contentious politics of governing. Ultimately, his success in office will depend...