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...noted that the general population has grown by 19 million since 2002, meaning that far more people in the U.S. opted not to read a book last year). A new question attempted to break the fiction genre down by subcategories - mystery, thriller, romance, science fiction, etc. - but with limited success: 46.3% of respondents prefer mysteries, while 40.8% prefer "other fiction." Poetry seems to be the most imperiled form of literature, largely because the number of women who read it - historically the genre's biggest fans - has fallen by 39% since...
...Cultural decline is not inevitable," Gioia concludes. "While we cannot be complacent, we can surely pause to celebrate our common success." Unfortunately, that self-congratulatory tone spoils the entire report and overshadows its larger point - that more Americans reading is a good thing, regardless of whether the NEA made them...
...greater the exposure as a fetus, in other words, the higher the levels of confidence, vigilance or risk appetite triggered by testosterone in an adult. That observation has already made digit ratio a useful indicator of ability in fields other than finance; 2D:4D has been found to predict success in sports such as soccer, basketball and skiing, for instance. (Read TIME's top 10 sports moments...
...levels may be less well suited to holding down long-term trading positions, for one thing. "The message here," says Coates, "is that biology can give you an edge, just as it does in sports or music, but it's not that there's one biological trait that determines success in the financial world. Those traits will change, depending on which segment of the market...
...Madoff, the "sophisticated swindler," couldn't have agreed more. Some unregistered feeder funds, like the one I and others invested in, had $500 million or more in them and were the early engines of Madoff's dubious success...