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Zoologists have known for many years that homosexuality isn't uncommon among animals. (My own cat has raised suspicions ever since he tried to mount a cowering male dachshund.) But I was surprised to learn recently that male sheep exhibit homosexuality at least as often as humans: roughly 8% of rams turn out to have sex exclusively with other rams...
...like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the “Xian myth...
...around the world whose boundary-pushing contributions have helped shape the information age in a myriad of ways. The 21st century may be the one in which ordinary people create improvements in such fields as education, health, environmental science and economics, using the inventive technology possible only in this uncommon information age. Ratna Ray Toronto...
...Communications blackouts aren't uncommon-in 2005, for example, Pakistan was cut off from the Internet for 12 days after a fishing boat accidentally snagged its main international connection; sharks have even been blamed for biting into lightly armored lines. But outages on the scale of this Asia-wide meltdown aren't supposed to happen. And with the march of globalization, companies are more dependent than ever on global networks, which makes the threat of communications paralysis particularly unsettling. So what can be done to prevent future blackouts...
...President Bush saluted Ford for bringing his calm to "one of the most divisive moments in our nation's history," and said he was revered "because America needed him, not because he needed the office." It was a unique element of an uncommon Presidency...