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...finding is that societies of hunter-gatherers tend to be more economically egalitarian than those of farmers and herders because of how parents do - or don't - transfer wealth to their children. Among hunter-gatherers, a child born into the top 10% of richest families is three times more likely to wind up rich than a child born into the poorest 10% of families. Among farmers, that rich-born child is 11 times more likely to be rich, and among herders, 20 times more likely...
...Harvard’s endowments tend to be quite old, so they have a lot of appreciation built up in there,” Shore said. “Underwater funds’ challenges have been biggest in the places that have received the newest endowment funds...
Ansel Adams was the poet of the gray spectrum, the man who dipped the American sublime into the inkpot of black-and-white photography and by that means made it new again. So persuasive were his methods that because of him we tend to think of the national parks the way we think of the Great Depression, as something we can barely conceive of in color. He almost made us believe that the whole of creation comes in the palette of a cinder block - and to be glad about it. (See 10 things you didn't know about national parks...
...insurers can't be sure what the various states will do, and neither can liberals. But both sides know that states, like all of us, tend to err on the side of doing nothing...
...hard-fought game,” as sports fans tend to visualize it, takes place in the rain, on a muddy field. It’s fierce and physical with star players getting knocked around and fans heckling the refs and opposing players. The two teams relentlessly attack each other’s goal, often to no avail, until the very last second. One play, quick and unexpected, decides the game...