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The Max Hotel, situated on a busy shopping street in central Brussels, is a cool, modern and unapologetically basic budget hotel. Though technically a one-star hotel (quote the Web site: "who cares?"), its uncluttered design easily exceeds those of most two- and three-star establishments. It's also super-clean and comfortable—not to mention conveniently located.
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Address Du Béguinage 38 (Ste. Catherine)
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Facebook was the first to really talk about the "Social Graph" as way to describe their social network, but Brad Fitzpatrick, the creator of LiveJournal, and now an engineer at Google is really the first to really talk about practical applications and potential of social graphs. Brad defined the Social Graph as "the global mapping of everybody and how they're related"
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A trick that anybody can learn lets you determine the day of the week from the date. We'll apply some Perl technology to discover whether the method is reliable.
Recently, I was reading Mind Performance Hacks and stumbled across Hack Number 43, which explains how to determine the day of the week for any given date. The method is attributed to Lewis Carroll], the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Simply calculate four values, one after the other, for the year, month, and day, and a fourth value as an adjustment factor. Then add the values, divide by 7, and the remainder amazingly gives you the day of the week as a number between zero (Sunday) and six (Saturday).
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Brian Matuszak column: Spring is in the air, and so is the Home Show
So the mud is free-flowing, the insects are buzzing, and although you might think it's election time already, those are actually signs of spring.
So the mud is free-flowing, the insects are buzzing, and although you might think it's election time already, those are actually signs of spring.
Time for sun-soaked days filled with fresh hope, followed by gin-soaked nights as that hope is crushed by yet another Twins loss and/or Vikings draft debacle. But why dwell on professional sports ineptitude this spring when we can dwell on our dwellings? Spring is also time for the Home Show!
Yes, just as you can set your clocks to local TV stations doing stories about Gordy's restaurant in Cloquet reopening for the summer and calling it "news," you can look forward to the spring arrival of the annual
Arrowhead Home & Builders Show. Every year, the Duluth
Entertainment and Convention Center (motto: "Conveniently located inside the Arena!") hosts this celebration of all things residence-related. From backyard landscaping (AJ's) to stink bug removal (Duluth City Hall), there are booths set up for everything you'll ever need when dealing with either your house or the Last Place on Earth.
(OK, that last part was obviously a joke. LPOE probably doesn't have stink bugs, and Don Ness has more important things to do than sit in a booth at the Home Show. Those Harlem Shake videos aren't going to parody themselves, you know.)
As I've chronicled in columns past, I used to work on the overnight labor crew at the former Arena/current DECC/constant lake-view obstacle, and the Home Show was always one of our favorite events. The entire complex would be taken up by various businesses, which meant our expected labor output was minimal; vendors were responsible for setting up and taking down their own displays so we didn't have to do much. Some light sweeping here, spot-mopping up a glob of Denny Anderson's toupee paste there ... piece of cake!
When break time rolled around, we would lounge about in the various exhibits, pretending that we actually owned luxurious spas or expansive backyard decks. As long as we cleaned up the orange Doritos dust and empty vats of Top The Tater from our healthy lunches, the boss gave us his tacit approval. Some of us would pretend to be on winter vacation at our lakeside cabin, while others just kicked back in our huge hot tubs. For one magical, thirty-minute lunch break (taken at three o'clock in the morning), we could be anywhere we wanted to be. Which was usually not at work at 3 o'clock in the morning.
I always think about those minimum wage/maximum fun days when another annual event rolls back into town and sets up shop down by Duluth's harbor: the Home Show, the Boat Show, the Shrine Circus, the Ice Capades ... oops. The Ice Capades doesn't come to Duluth anymore. I wonder if it was because someone accidentally left the Arena floor heaters running all night and Tai Babilonia had to attempt a triple lutz on a rink of frosty slush. Hmmm, um, I guess we'll never know the, uh, true story there, um, will we ....
Gotta go! I just saw on Channel 6 that Gordy's is open!
Brian Matuszak is the co-founder of Renegade Comedy Theatre, founder of Rubber Chicken Theater, and can no longer work an overnight shift because he's always groggy by 5:20 in the afternoon.
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Saying that many urban centres had developed a laissez fairez attitude towards planning, Mrs. Tibaijuka said that with a detailed master plan, civic authorities would be able to monitor the erection of structures and all other activities carried out within their jurisdiction.
"We must incorporate the culture of planning in our towns and cities," she said in a keynote address at a one-day seminar on the Urbanisation Crisis in Tanzania in Moshi town on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. The seminar was sponsored by the UN-HABITAT's Sustainable Cities Programme and drew some 50 participants drawn from municipalities, government departments, NGOs and other stakeholders.
If managed well, she said urbanisation would work for the local people by creating decent jobs and decent shelter for the urban poor stranded in the slums and squatter settlements surrounding cities and towns of Africa.
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The All Americans who took the field Friday at the 7s All Star Championships in Chula Vista, Calif. were different than those that played in Glendale the week prior, with six players joining the squad following a 15s tour of Ireland. Having played a lot of rugby in the last week and logged quite a few hours on planes, the new guys were playing tired. "For us, we got everybody on the field in every match. We spread the minutes out over all the players, and I could tell we had some tired players out there. That's what we kind of had to do today, but it was good," said All Americans coach Tony Pacheco. "It gave us the opportunity to get to know each other. We only had one brief training session where we didn't really run too much because the guys just got off a plane. In a way this day kind of helped us get to know each other out there." The All Americans went 0-1-2 on day one, tying the Northeast and South and falling to the West by just a try. "Certainly the score lines and the table weren't where the boys wanted and weren't where I wanted, but we got better every game and that's really important in a two-day tournament," Pacheco said. The Central Washington coach learned a lot about his team in Friday's pool matches. "I think I got a good idea, having not had an assembly and a camp with the guys, which guys are going to play well together and what some guys do well and what some guys don't do well, so in that sense day one was good for us." Two guys who stepped up on Friday were Arizona's Brett Thompson and Minnesota's Nate Augspurger, with Thompson playing especially well. "I thought Brett Thompson was great today, being a real leader for the guys," said Pacheco. "In the second two matches he was really impressive, and he really executed play really well and got guys into the right spots and was really directing guys out there. "He's a big, strong guy and he's also a big, strong, fast guy, and that's what he's got going for him. He's a tall man and he can cover some ground. Once he gets behind the defense he's usually going to finish the score, and that's what he did the last two games." The All Americans have a tough test early on Saturday, as they meet undefeated Southern California in the quarterfinals. SoCal, led by Arizona's Peter Tiberio who leads the tournament in tries with four and OMBAC's Zach Pangelinan who leads the tourney in points with 35, is the only team to emerge from Friday 3-0. |


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Harry Saunders is a very easy easy rider. The motorcycle enthusiast doesn't belong to a club, nor does he fiddle much with his Harley Davidson Road King Cruiser. He leaves that up to the experts.
"I just like to ride when I feel like it. If the weather is good, my wife will jump on the back and we're off," says Saunders. "That's very different from my normal work day, which is tightly scheduled with business meetings and conference calls. It's a great stress reliever for me." Saunders is a relatively new biker, buying his first bike, a Harley Dyna Low Rider, a little more than 10 years ago, during a self-described mid-life crisis. If he has the time, he'll take a tour around the Island, but usually he'll take a quick spin out to Sandy Beach and back. "Harley is just so American," says Saunders. "You're out there with the wind in your face and bugs in your mouth. There's no music playing. It's just me, my wife and the bike." |
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03/16/2012 -- Know your footprint and work to lower it. Involve those you live with in making and implementing the plan. - What Can I Do as Part of My Annual Conference?
03/16/2012 -- Several United Methodist camp and conference center directors are helping lead the way in our denomination related to lowering greenhouse gas emissions and demonstrating other forms of Creation Care. - United Methodists Join Tar Sands Action for Environmental Justice
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06/02/2011 -- Local Haitians are the unsung heroines and heroes of the earthquake recovery story. Here are portraits of a few Haitians, Methodist sisters and brothers, who in the words of LeGrace Benson, "have been rehearsing and performing this theater since that firs... - Green Holiday Ideas
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Gill lice are a parasite of brook trout that have always lived in balance with the trout with. Now, increases in gill lice in waters were previously there was none have biologists' attention. / Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
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Despite their small size, New Zealand mudsnails are very hardy and potentially very prolific, stirring concerns about potential impacts on food webs. / Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
MADISON — With a potentially prolific invasive snail recently documented in Black Earth Creek, one of Wisconsin's premier trout waters, and a native parasite spreading among brook trout statewide, anglers can help keep Wisconsin fish and streams healthy by taking a few key prevention steps after fishing during the early catch-and-release trout season.
"Prevention steps work and everyone's vigilance matters," says Deborah Seiler, aquatic invasive species outreach coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and UW-Extension.
The good news is you don't have to avoid fishing Black Earth Creek or any of the streams where gill lice have been reported," says Matt Mitro, a DNR trout researcher involved in efforts to stem the spread of gill lice and the snails. "As with any lake or river statewide, you're required to clean your gear and drain water from equipment after leaving and before entering another stream. We also recommend disinfecting that gear as well to reduce even more the risk of spreading New Zealand mud snails and other aquatic organisms."
Mitro and Seiler are part of a multi-partner group formed to respond to the discovery in Dane County's Black Earth Creek of the New Zealand mudsnail. The invasive species is present in the western United States and in the Great Lakes; the Black Earth Creek discovery marked the first documentation in inland Midwestern waters.
It's hard to predict how the snails will impact the stream, as in some western locations they have had minimal impact, or the snail populations have crashed after an initial boom, Seiler says. But in the worst case scenarios, mudsnails in some western U.S. waterbodies have been found growing at densities of up to 500,000 per square meter, changing native food webs and potentially decreasing the size and abundance of trout.
Trout Unlimited, River Alliance of Wisconsin, and other state, federal and county agencies are also partners. The response team will be monitoring other streams to look for mudsnails and conducting outreach to stream users, including anglers, researchers, and the construction industry. The River Alliance is seeking an early detection and response grant from DNR to try to contain the snail.
The same prevention steps for the mudsnail may help prevent the spread of gill lice and other aquatic organisms. Brook trout and gill lice have always lived together in Wisconsin streams but recently the balance appears to be tipping toward higher gill lice numbers in some streams. The parasite attaches to a brook trout's gills making it difficult for the fish to breathe and slowing normal growth and development. This increase in gill lice in some streams may be reducing trout numbers, Mitro says.
Statewide, 2013 efforts by anglers and DNR biologists to record the presence of gill lice, a native parasite of brook trout, reveals that gill lice are widely distributed across the state, except they appear to be absent in the Lake Superior basin, or at least in the samples of streams and trout inspected there, according to Mitro. "The prevalence and intensity of infection varies widely, with no geographic "hot spots," he says.
Taking steps to prevent the spread of the New Zealand Mud Snail and other aquatic organisms will just take a few extra minutes but can help keep trout populations and fishing strong, Mitro and Seiler say.
Before leaving a waterway:
- Inspect equipment and remove attached plants and animals
- Drain all water from equipment
- Scrub equipment with a stiff brush, including crevices, to remove adults
- Rinse equipment with tap water to remove juveniles
- Soak in 2 percent Virkon solution (2.7 ounces per gallon) for 20 minutes and
- Rinse clean away from surface waters.
- Change gear before entering another stream.
- Do not use felt soled boots
Anglers can report gill lice observations at the following webpage: http://www.wisconsintu.org/gilllice.
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Oh, what an unmitigated horror puberty was. For girls, therewas the inevitable first menstruation that came right in the middle of gymclass: the bloody shorts, the panic--no one had told you you'd bleed thatmuch--and the conviction that you were about to die of either embarrassment orhemorrhage. Training bras, pubic hair, acne; there were no end of disquietingchanges. For boys, there was the first wet dream, inevitably occurring at sleep-awaycamp--sneaking off to the woods to bury your disgusting soiled pajamas--thevisible erection with a mind of its own in the swimming trunks, the voice thatcracked whenever you spoke to someone of the opposite sex. Humiliation,agonies, pimply insecurities; you wondered if life would ever return to normal,and the answer, you knew, was no. Most of all, there was the heartfelt prayer of every pubescent child: "Please,please, if I have to go through this, don't let it happen to me one minutebefore or after it happens to everyone else. Please don't let me be different."For the peer-pressured adolescent, the timing of puberty is everything. Indeed,for all mammals going about the business of being fit enough to survive andreproduce, the timing of puberty is pretty important. But some mammals dosomething about it. As social or environmental conditions shift--when there's achange in the availability of food, for example, or in the number of animalscompeting for mates--many animals find that it sometimes pays to reach pubertyat an earlier age, and it's sometimes better to delay the process. Now there's evidence that humans, too, manipulate the timing of puberty'sonset. In a controversial paper published last fall, a team of researchersproposed that girls reach puberty at an earlier age if they are raised in homesfilled with parental strife or where the father is absent because of divorce orabandonment. The notion that our bodies can engage in such weighty deliberation shouldn't besurprising. After all, we're comfortable with the idea that some of our lives'landmark events are decided strategically. We do it constantly. For example: "Oh,let's not. What a terrible time this would be for me to get pregnant--you'reout of work, my dissertation research is bogged down, the Nazis are marching onParis, and we'llhave to flee." That sort of thing. But such strategies are conscious. It's harder to think about the timing ofpuberty as a strategy. We do not think, "The time is ripe--I've decided tostart ovulating," any more than a bamboo plant decides, "The rainfall's beenfabulous--I think I'll start flowering," or a deer decides, "Ah, spring is inthe air--time to grow me some antlers." The "thinking" and "deciding" do notreally occur. Instead, a more complex evolutionary process is taking place:organisms that have the biological means to time an important life-historyevent (such as puberty or flowering or growing antlers) so that it occurs whenthe environment is best suited for it have an advantage over organisms thatcannot do so; therefore more of them will survive, more will reproduce, andmore will leave copies of their genes to future generations. And thus theiradaptive timing mechanism will become more common in their species over themillennia. When does it best make sense to go through puberty? Well, to start with,puberty is an energetically costly experience, so it probably makes sense to gothrough it early only if you've been fed well and you're healthy and can affordthe metabolic expense. It wouldn't hurt to make sure that there is someoneattractive around who is available to mate with, and it also helps if theenvironment is conducive to the survival of any children you may have. When isit logical to defer puberty? If things are bad enough that you need your energyto survive instead of to reproduce, if it makes sense to still be taken care ofby Mom instead of becoming a mom yourself, if there's no one around to matewith except close relatives. Take, as an example, a female prepubescent mouse left on her own. Eventually,of course, she will reach puberty. But put an adult male into the cage with herand she will reach puberty earlier. This intriguing phenomenon, known as theVandenbergh effect, is produced by pheromones-- chemicals that cause abehavioral response in other animals of the same species--in the male's urine.These pheromones, when detected by a sensing organ in the roof of the female'smouth, crank up her ovulatory machinery. The male's urine does this trick evenwhen the male isn't present--just dab a smidgen of male urine on females andthey reach puberty earlier. Moreover, the more male sexual hormones the mousehas in his bloodstream, the more effective he is at accelerating the onset ofpuberty. Conversely, when a prepubescent female mouse is exposed to a large number ofadult females, puberty is delayed. Once again the signal is a pheromone, but inthis case it's one found in the urine of the adult females. Block the youngfemale's sensing organ, and the puberty delay no longer occurs. Researchers have speculated that these signals might play some role inregulating population density. For example, a large number of adult femalesprobably indicate a dense population. The puberty-delaying pheromones serve asa brake on fecundity: if the population density is high enough, there will soonbe food shortages, and why should a starving female waste energy on ovulatingand getting pregnant when the odds of her carrying through a pregnancy arepretty small? Such speculation is clearly supported by a study conducted by zoologistsAdrianne Massey at the North Carolina Biotechnology Centerand John Vandenbergh (of Vandenbergh effect fame) at North Carolina State University. The tworesearchers examined mouse populations in the acre or so of grass found in eachloop of a highway cloverleaf out in the hills of North Carolina. Patches like theseconstitute "biogeographic islands," closed mini-ecosystems where there are fewmice immigrants (the ones who try to switch to a different cloverleaf patchusually get squashed by the cars on the road in between). Massey andVandenbergh studied the fluctuation of mouse populations in each patch. Whenthe population of a particular patch became large enough, the females began tomake the puberty-delaying pheromone. And when the population dipped, thefemales stopped making this pheromone. Males indiscriminately made the puberty-accelerating odorant all the time, so when population density dropped and thedelaying signals from the females were absent, puberty was accelerated. Thebodies of prepubescent females were able to monitor the environment around themand choose wisely as to when to leap into the reproductive business. Male mammals often show a similar savvy. Some antelopes, for example, such asgazelles and impalas, grow up in social groups in which a number of females andtheir offspring live with a single breeding male. Other mature males liveeither as wandering loners or in all-male bands, butting heads and honing theirfighting skills for the moment when they stage a coup d'Žtat against thebreeding male. For a male growing up with his mother and the rest of the breeding group,puberty carries a stiff price. When an adolescent male begins to sproutpubescent "gender badges" such as horns, the breeding male perceives theyoungster as a sexual rival and begins harassing him, driving him out of thegroup. The apron string is cut rather abruptly, with consequences that are nottrivial--when males go out on their own, their risk of being eaten by predatorssoars. (It's been theorized that the danger of a young male's showing signs ofmaturity is what led females to sprout horns also: the female headgear could bean evolutionary dodge developed by protective mothers to draw attention awayfrom their growing male offspring.) What is a prepubescent male antelope to do? By reaching puberty too early, heis subject to the harassment of the dominant male when he may not yet be readyto survive the rigors of being driven from hearth and home. But by delayingpuberty too long, he forgoes reproductive potential. Clearly he needs to make a carefully considered decision--and apparently he does.Richard Estes of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoologyhas examined the timing of puberty in antelopes and found that if the outsideworld looks pretty challenging and dangerous--a lot of other antelopes aroundto fight over food, not much food out there anyway, and a lot of lurkingpredators--the males delay the onset of puberty. Similar strategizing occurs in primates. If you have ever watched orangutans ina zoo, you may have noted that the males seem to come in two varieties. One isshort-haired, limber, and agile. The other is much heavier and lumbering, withodd, fatty cheek flanges, thick long hair, and a large muscular throat pouch.Primatologists studying orangutans in the wild always assumed that the moregracile form was simply an adolescent, the latter being the adult version.However, in zoo populations, some males retain the gracile form well intoadulthood, even a decade later than normal. Invariably these are males livingnear an older, more socially dominant male. Some sort of signal given off bythe dominant male makes the body of the subordinate delay the development ofthe adult secondary sexual features that give the heavier form its appearance.Take away the dominant male, and the eternally youthful subordinate rapidlydevelops all the mature traits. None of this strategizing has yet been shown to occur in male humans, butpsychologist Jay Belsky and anthropologist Patricia Draper of Penn State andpsychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple University have found something verymuch like it in females. Their argument is actually the flip side of thedelaying tactic used by antelopes and orangutans. In a nutshell, their premiseis: When times are tough and life is unstable, it makes sense to hurry up,reach puberty, and start reproducing sooner, or it may be too late and you'lldie childless. This thinking bears the mark of a certain style of ecology. One of the basicdichotomies made by ecologists is between "stable" species and "opportunistic"species. Stable species live in unchanging, predictable environments. They livelong lives in large populations; they are large- bodied; and they lavish a lotof parental attention on relatively few offspring. They opt for quality versusquantity when it comes to reproduction; years later members of these speciesare still doing the kid's laundry and paying tuition for chirping lessons.Compared with closely related species that don't have as many of these traits,stable species tend to reach puberty later. For them there is no rush: they canafford to grow big and healthy before starting to invest all that energy in afew pregnancies. Think of elephants, with their 2-year pregnancies and 65-yearlife spans. Or ancient redwood trees. Or humans, a classic stable species. In contrast are the opportunistic species, which live in ecosystems that areunstable and unpredictable--with long periods of severe weather, foodshortages, and environments that are favorable only now and then. Animals thatlive near bodies of water that dry up seasonally or plants that grow best insoil just after a fire are opportunistic. They're gamblers, living boom-or-bustexistences. The population will be tiny for long periods. Then, when conditionssuddenly become right, there's tremendous pressure to take advantage of themfast, and wham--everyone starts mating or pollinating. Quantity over quality,reproduce as much as possible, don't bother taking care of the kids, just floodthe market with offspring while the going is good. Opportunistic species tendto be small- bodied and short-lived, their population size fluctuates wildly,and once conditions are favorable, they reach puberty rapidly. Think of rabbitsreproducing like rabbits and invading some new region, or of some kind of scrubweed that pops up overnight in the disturbed soil on the edge of a constructionsite. About a decade ago, Draper and her colleague Henry Harpending theorized thatwhen girls are abandoned by their fathers during childhood, they grow up tobecome women who behave more like an opportunistic species. The girls havelearned that males make unreliable parents, so they don't bother searching fora reliable mate--they have sex at an earlier age, have more sexual partners,more kids, and are more likely to have rocky marriages. When Draper and Harpending proposed their theory, it was already well knownthat women who grow up in unstable homes are more likely to behave thisway--the novel thing about Draper and Harpending's work was that they tried toexplain this pattern from an ecological-evolutionary perspective rather than apsychological or socioeconomic one. Now Draper, Belsky, and Steinberg havebuilt on this approach by making the controversial suggestion that in unstablesettings it's not only the behavior of such girls that becomes moreopportunistic, it's their bodies as well, and so the girls reach pubertyearlier. A handful of studies supports this idea. In two studies led by Belsky and oneby Steinberg, girls who reported more strained relations with their parents,and girls raised in homes with persistent family conflict reached pubertyearlier than girls from more contented families. In a detailed 1990 study,Michele Surbey of Mount Allison Universityin Canada(who at the time proposed a theory quite close to that of Belsky andcolleagues) found that girls raised with the father absent because of divorceor abandonment also had earlier puberty. An Australian research group had foundthe same thing in 1972. Among all the various studies the effect was prettysmall--on average, puberty was accelerated by five months. The various authors wrestle a bit with potential physiological mechanisms forthis effect (evolutionary theory is concerned with why puberty might beaccelerated; physiological mechanisms, the nuts and bolts of hormones andnervous system, explain how puberty might be accelerated). Surbey, citinganimal pheromone studies, hypothesizes that biological fathers might release apuberty-delaying chemical, perhaps an airborne one sensed by the nose--take thefather and his pheromones away and puberty comes earlier. The problem here ishow to explain Belsky's results, in which the presumably pheromonally-richfather sticks around and fights constantly with the mother yet puberty is stillaccelerated in the girls. But regardless of what the mechanism might be, the mere idea that socialinstability leads to earlier puberty has upset a lot of people. Someinvestigators who have tried to duplicate these studies haven't gotten the sameresults. Other critics note that measures of "parental strife" or "strain" ingirls' relations with parents rely largely on the girls' own reports, so there'splenty of room for bias and inconsistency. The biggest problem with the findings and the underlying theory is that theyare exactly the opposite of much of what is known about the effect of stress onpuberty. A lot of the research suggests that "when times are tough and life isunstable, hold off on reaching puberty--it's a bad time to get pregnant and thekid won't survive, so don't waste energy ovulating." And we're not just talkingabout antelopes here. Girls who experience the stress of sustained physicalexercise (for example, serious ballet dancers) reach puberty later thanaverage, as do girls with anorexia nervosa. Additional evidence that extreme physical stress suppresses reproductivephysiology instead of stimulating it comes from studies of women who havealready reached puberty. Consistently, physical stresses such as weight loss,heavy exercise, or illness delay or even block ovulation. Moreover, it's beenfound that a variety of psychological stresses, rather than physical ones, canalso trigger the cessation of ovulation. This latter finding is particularlyrelevant, given that the girls growing up in unstable home environments wereprobably being psychologically, but not physically, stressed. The authors of the new theory try to reconcile these differences. If Surbey isright that the girls reach puberty earlier because some puberty-delayingpheromone from their fathers is missing, then this is no longer a contradictorystory about stress and maturation but instead a story about pheromones andmaturation. Her data also suggest this might not be a broad theory about "whenlife is unreliable, reach puberty earlier," but merely about "when the primarymale around you is unreliable, reach puberty earlier." Surbey found that havinga mother rather than a father absent didn't accelerate puberty, yet growing upwithout a mother should be just as much of a lesson to a child that life isstressful. Belsky, for his part, contends that there could be a difference between theeffects of extreme, potentially life-threatening stress and milder forms ofstress, such that a starving anorexic might delay puberty, while a stressed-outyet relatively healthy child of a broken home might reach it sooner. One other important factor may explain the effect. The age of puberty onset ispartially inherited--mothers who reach puberty early tend to have daughters whodo so as well. Perhaps early sexual maturation is somehow related to havingunstable marital relationships later. In that scenario, girls in unstable homesreach puberty earlier because they inherit that biological trait from theirmother, not because the home environment is unstable. Surbey did find that themothers of her early- maturing girls had indeed reached puberty earlythemselves. When the mother's age of puberty onset was taken into account, theoverall effect of home environment decreased. The ideas of Belsky, Surbey, and their colleagues may or may not turn out to bevalid; clearly much more research is needed before we'll know, and the issuewill in all likelihood depend on finely wrought details of scientific argument.So why have their various notions been the subject of heated discussion notjust in academic circles but in newspapers around the country? Because lurking behind the scientific arguments is a big public policy conflictover what to do about teenage pregnancy. The pregnancy rate for teens in the United States isastonishingly high for a Western country. It's twice that of Canada or England, for example. Teen motherscome disproportionately from poor inner-city populations rife with unstable,broken families. Children of such mothers are more likely to have health andlearning problems, and thus to underachieve and place a burden on socialservices for years to come. Belsky thinks the theory he's helped formulate has something to say about thismess. In his view, the unstable early environment of many an inner-city teenagegirl produces earlier puberty and the whole range of attendant opportunisticbehavior that ends in an increased risk of pregnancy. "These teenagers aren'tnecessarily carrying out bad behavior," he says. "Their bodies are justresponding to forces that have emerged over the course of evolution." Belsky and Surbey's critics, however, worry that the theory suggests that onecan blame biology instead of society for the problem, and blaming biologyimplies that we can't do much about teen pregnancy. Yet for a bloatedly wealthycountry, they note, we expend very little effort to give a massive underclassany hope for jobs or education. Our mass media are permeated with a sexual hardsell that few adolescents have the means to respond to maturely. Our governmentmakes war on sex education and access to contraceptives and makes itincreasingly difficult for the young and the poor to have abortions. Are thesethe reasons that we have such an appallingly high rate of teen pregnanciesamong our poor? Or is it because early family conflict commands such girls tofollow a biologically determined program of early pregnancy? Belsky doesn't think the explanations are mutually exclusive. He does notbelieve that his theory is about how biology can cause earlier pregnancy, butabout how a biological drive can make a young person from an unstable home morelikely to respond to various societal pressures. This is what he calls a "nature-basedtheory of nurture." If true, it predicts that the effects on teen pregnancyrates of growing up in an unstable home would be stronger among poor kids thanamong middle-class kids. And if he is right--if early stress and resulting biological changes do notform a direct link to more teen pregnancies but instead are one of the manyfactors influencing how teenagers respond to the seductive world aroundthem--then perhaps the policy implications of his view are not so worrisome.Much of behavioral biology works through this sort of biology-environmentinteraction. These results are not an excuse for society to say, in effect, "Theregoes that darn biology again--nothing we can do about it," and wash its handsof the mess. The findings are, if anything, a scientific rationale for whysociety has the responsibility to try to solve these social ills.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Win or lose Saturday, Miss America contestant Allyn Rose will have conveyed a message about breast cancer prevention using her primary tool as a beauty queen: her body.
The 24-year-old Miss DC plans to undergo a double mastectomy after she struts in a bikini and flaunts her roller skating talent. She is removing both breasts as a preventative measure to reduce her chances of developing the disease that killed her mother, grandmother and great aunt.
"My mom would have given up every part of her body to be here for me, to watch me in the pageant," she said between dress rehearsals and preliminary competitions at Planet Hollywood on the Las Vegas Strip Wednesday. "If there's something that I can do to be proactive, it might hurt my body, it might hurt my physical beauty, but I'm going to be alive."
If crowned, the University of Maryland, College Park politics major could become the first Miss America not endowed with the Barbie silhouette associated with beauty queens.
Rose said it was her father who first broached the subject, during her freshman year of college, two years after the death of her mother
"I said, 'Dad I'm not going to do that. I like the body I have.' He got serious and said, 'Well then you're going to end up dead like your mom.' "
She has pondered that conversation for the past three years, during which she has worked as a model and won several pageants, including Miss Maryland USA, Miss Sinergy and the Miss District of Columbia competition, which put her in the running for Saturday's bonanza.
With her angular face, pale blonde hair and watchful blue eyes, Rose is unusually reserved. She acknowledged that she comes off as more of an ice-queen than a girl next door
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