"Foetal hearts in other mammals such as pigs, which we have been using as models, show such an organisation even early in gestation, with a smooth change in cell orientation going through the heart wall. But what we actually found is that such organisation was not detectable in the human foetus before 20 weeks," she said.
Hakim, too, thinks that the male sex deficit should be filled; it's just that women ought to be driving a much harder bargain for it. She sees the deficit as a great opportunity for women to exploit their potential power over men. Both in their private lives and in the marketplace, women must learn to be much more calculating. Above all, they mustn't submit to male and social pressure to give this stuff away for love, or for free.
The bargaining starts in relationships, where women have to learn to ask for more from their partners in return for access to sex. Why? Remarkably, largely because it will improve their negotiating skills at work. Hakim thinks if you can't get a better return for your erotic capital from a man who claims to love you, you'll never strike deals in the workplace either. "Confidence and bargaining skills begin at home, like much else."
If neither "broken windows" policing nor other policy changes caused New York's great crime drop, then what did? Why, for that matter, has crime dropped elsewhere in the United States, and (as Lauren J. Krivopoints out in the same Justice Quarterly issue), all over the world?
Well, we don't know.
Here's an example of clean writing that teachers wish they could easily teach; from Terry of Nevada.
---SPSmithI find the confiscatory argument strange. It's usually put forward by folks who fear that their government will take their rights away and, lacking guns, they will have no defense against that.
Oddly these same people often advocate for a strong military. Do these people seriously believe that some sort of people's militia will be any match for the military they've helped to create, if the military were under the control of some despot? A few guys standing around with Bushmasters are going to defeat, say, the guys who took out Bin Laden?
Contrast these three questions:
Answering the first question affirmatively leaves the next two questions open.
