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Study explains why men are at higher risk for stomach cancer

Several types of cancer, including stomach, liver and colon, are far more common in men than in women. Some scientists have theorized that differences in lifestyle, such as diet and smoking, may...

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Gender spenders

Many Americans went into personal debt before the economic recession hit the country in 2008. Why? For some men, the biggest factor may have been intense competition to find a spouse.That’s the...

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Smoother dashboard typefaces might enhance driver safety

Typeface aficionados perceive major differences among fonts that look broadly similar to the rest of us. Now an MIT study suggests that when it comes to the typefaces used on auto dashboards, such...

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Q&A with MIT philosopher Sally Haslanger

A professor of philosophy and director of Women's and Gender Studies at MIT, Sally Haslanger recently published "Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique" (Oxford University Press,...

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