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...such efforts have triggered grumbling inside the Pentagon. Some officers see the food-stamp issue as a mere symbol, a problem for which pols can come up with a "fix," declare victory and then desert the military force's deeper woes. "Food stamps are only a sound bite," says Joyce Raezer of the National Military Family Association, which fights to improve the lot of military families. "There are a lot more pressing issues." Housing, for example: there are 500,000 old and decrepit military housing units needing repair. McCain's plan to reduce the number of troops on food stamps...
While the Banzers may think of the work Matthew's grandmother and great-aunts do as mere baby-sitting, anthropologists know it is part of a far more primal practice called alloparenting. In all manner of animals, including bees, elephants, lions, lemurs, bats and birds, creatures with no parental investment in offspring routinely expend enormous amounts of energy caring for their relatives' young. Alloparents are not unconditional caretakers; they won't devote scarce resources to other offspring at the expense of their own. But when conditions allow an alloparenting deal to be made, it's a good bargain all around...
...those familiar with the power of the Internet, the information revolution it brought to the U.S. is a mere ripple next to the tsunami it could cause in Latin America, a region fractured geographically, culturally, economically and socially. Of course, the area still holds serious practical challenges to Internet growth. While 7 of every 10 Americans have a phone line, only 1 in 10 Latin Americans does, and probably waited months or even years to get it. The average monthly income in the region hovers around $350, while computers and Internet service cost the same as or more than...
...Mere Pitaji kahan...
...Other flashes of amusing oddities include Jeff Dubner '03 as a wimpy boxer incapable of doing a mere pushup pretending to be a 245 lb. man. Through this skit, Critchley mocks masculinity, especially when the drag wrestler beats up Dubner. Also featured is a proposal to start a new colony off of Boston's harbor where all with constant erections may be free from the society of Lympville and roam about on the phallus shaped heaven...