Word: sharing
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Some animals, besides being non-zero-sum games, are good at playing them. Vampire bats returning from a successful blood-sucking expedition share the proceeds with bat buddies that had a tougher night on the parasitism front. Since these magnanimous bats will someday be needy themselves, this reciprocal altruism is a win-win game. Natural selection favored animals good at win-win gamesmanship...
...baby gift, both women have behaved with determined gentility. Wintour praised Betts in a recent editor's letter (making no mention of the handful of Vogue staff members Betts took with her), and Betts acknowledged Wintour in her first editor's note as well. It seems the two share more than good manners. "Kate is more effusive and engaged than Anna in general," says a writer at Vogue, "but she can also be curt and quite intimidating...
...minority writers to whom the networks have, post-N.A.A.C.P., been offering development deals will probably be watching City's fortunes and CBS's patience. Pointing to good ratings for recent TV movies featuring African Americans, CBS Television president Les Moonves says, "We don't need an instant 20 share to be able to let [City] survive" in its uncompetitive 8 p.m. time slot. But they will need both white and minority viewers to thrive and create the kind of cross-cultural exchange City aims at. In the second episode, a white resident panics when an African-American girl shows...
...honor to share the century with such a person. A thousand years from now, people will still look upon Einstein with wonder. J. RICHARD GOTT Princeton...
There has been a lot of coverage of this AOL-Time Warner merger, but none of it has really pinpointed how it will affect me. Not only did the Time Warner share price jump on Monday to $90.06, making my portfolio worth $180.12, but I also suddenly had a whole new group of co-workers to hit on. I wasn't sure what the Securities and Exchange Commission rules are about waiting periods, but I figured I should get right to it so I could get the jump on Ted Turner...