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...gender disparity in China—where males are more prevalent than females—to the hepatitis B virus. In a paper that will be published in the Journal of Political Economy, she showed that mothers who carry hepatitis B are 1.5 times more likely to bear a boy instead of a girl. “Countries with more hepatitis have higher sex ratios [male to female] at birth,” she wrote in an e-mail. In most parts of the world, the number of newborn girls has roughly equaled the number of newborn boys. But historically...
...Okkervil River. The folk-indie band from Austin is performing at midnight along with Drew O’Doherty (9 p.m.), Charles Bissell of the Wrens (10 p.m.), and The Minus Story (11 p.m.). The New York Times praised Okkervil River’s newest album, Black Sheep Boy, as “marvelous…full of elegant phrases and unexpected images” and Pitchfork described the CD as “the most sustained and startling collection of songs yet, throughout which the band makes Sheff’s private madness starkly public...
...Kirkland, living through the fire door doesn’t necessarily mean living next door—Parrot Boy resided in the next entryway over, so he was just another random Housemate, one of those people you see occasionally in the dining hall, but never in the stairwell...
While my relationship with Parrot Boy never progressed beyond muttering my sympathies for his bird and his girlfriend, the fact that the boy through the other fire door in my room lived in the same entryway offered more opportunities for interaction. Our door refused to stay shut—which proved useful on the frequent occasions that I locked myself out and went sheepishly next door to gain access to my room. Establishing a relationship with the person through the fire door, even if it’s just one of convenience, makes the inevitable eavesdropping a bit less absurd...
...Stars In America, Robbie Williams is probably most famous for not being famous. In the UK he is the talk of the tabloids (his nudist/exhibitionist tendencies lend ample material, as does his notoriously bacchanalian social life), and has been tearing up the pop charts ever since his days with boy band Take That. Every album he releases stateside is ostensibly poised to catapult him to stardom. But so far, success in America has eluded him. On “Intensive Care,” Williams eschews the dancehall crowd-pleasure of his moderately popular 2000 single, “Rock...