By Robert Lee Hotz, Times Staff Writer In the lexicon of lying, there are white lies and bare-faced lies. Facts can be fudged, forged or shaded. There are...
By TOBY STERLING The Associated Press Thursday, September 29, 2005; 8:27 PM AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The Dutch government intends to expand its current...
By SUZANNE SATALINE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL September 29, 2005; Page B1 Harrisburg, Pa. -- THE U.S. SUPREME COURT in 1987 barred public...
Andrew Duffy The Ottawa Citizen Saturday, October 01, 2005 Controversial Canadian professor Philippe Rushton, best known for shocking the world in 1989 with a...
Chinese peasants jailed to enforce 1-child rule Forced sterilizations, abortions protested Tribune foreign correspondent Published October 2, 2005 NIGOU, China...
In Pennsylvania, It Was Religion vs. Science, Pastor vs. Ph.D., Evolution vs. the Half-Fish By LAURIE GOODSTEIN Published: October 2, 2005 HARRISBURG, Pa.,...
By WILLIAM J. BROAD Published: October 2, 2005 THE human instinct to observe nature has always been mixed with a tendency to embroider upon it. So it is that,...
By GEORGE JOHNSON Published: October 2, 2005 EXCEPT for the robes and the fact that each is addressed as "His Holiness," it would be hard to find much in...
By Stephen Khan and Roger Dobson Published: 02 October 2005 Those fortunate enough to have symmetrical faces have probably already discovered that they...
September 30, 2005 -- Geneticists have debated for decades the relative importance of nature versus nurture in determining how an animal looks and behaves, and...
Sex and the brain Are men more likely than women to be born with the potential for abstract brilliance in science, mathematics, the arts or music? Los Angeles...
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"Professor Phillip Tobias, who calls himself 'an ordinary sort of chap', has detailed his extraordinary career in a memoir" http://tinyurl.com/b56wo...
The social logic of Ivy League admissions. by MALCOLM GLADWELL Issue of 2005-10-10 Posted 2005-10-03 I applied to college one evening, after dinner, in the...
By ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: October 4, 2005 "What is happiness? In the United States and in many other industrialized countries, it is often equated with...
"Russian gene pool degenerates in megalopolises Russian scientists have finished the first large-scale research of gene pool of the Russian people. The report...
Evolutionary conservation of a mechanism of longevity from worms to mammals Though the study of aging in the nematode model organism C. elegans has provided...
Navigating the brain for sense of direction as paradigm for higher cognitive functions Maybe Bill Bradley had it right: 'A sense of where you are' yields clues...
FIONA MACGREGOR "INCREASING use of PIN numbers and passwords has left the average person struggling to remember at least 20 digits or characters on a daily...
EBEN HARRELL "TALL women are more ambitious in their careers and less inclined to start a family than shorter women, a study revealed yesterday. Scots...
By John Biemer Tribune staff reporter Published October 4, 2005, 8:50 PM CDT DuPage County is no hotbed of paleontology, but a recent project to restore a...
"Fresh Air from WHYY, October 4, 2005 · Historian Edward Larson has written extensively on the intersection of science, politics and religion. In 2004,...
This paper uses EP to make its claims ... http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/methodologyInstitute/pdf/SKanazawa/JEP2005.pdf ABSTRACT Economists usually assume...
"Max Planck researchers demonstrate that it is first and foremost our own experiences that make it possible for us to experience sympathy and empathy for...
Trivers-Willard hypothesis ABSTRACT: This paper proposes the generalized Trivers–Willard hypothesis (gTWH), which suggests that parents who possess any...
And the most prolific shoplifters are... Wed Oct 5, 2005 8:55 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Britons are the most prolific shoplifters in Europe, a survey published...
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October 5, 2005 Deadly 1918 Epidemic Linked to Bird Flu, Scientists Say By GINA KOLATA Two teams of federal and university scientists announced today that they...