The American Enterprise Institute, which hosted the gathering, spent more than $50,000 on travel, lodging and meals for 18 members of Congress who attended the event, some of whom traveled with family members whose expenses were also covered, according to travel documents filed with Congress and reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity.
I think back on my childhood in Croatia and the endless weekends and family gatherings spent dancing, with grown-ups moving across the lawn, patio or even tiny kitchen floors, following the beat and laughing with abandonment.
We think that the Hadzas' bodies have adjusted to the higher activity levels required for hunting and gathering by spending less energy elsewhere.
In one way, she explains, her work is like that of any diligent researcher: painstakingly gathering information, spending hours poring over facts and figures and pondering their significance.
He loved hosting family gatherings and spending time with his grandchildren.
One obvious idea is that because, in the days of hunting and gathering, men spent more time wandering away from camp, their brains needed to be adapted to able to find their way around.
Many people who came for the gathering merely spent a languid day in the sun on Windrush Square, where performances, speeches and food stalls contributed to a carnival-like atmosphere.
Long after most news photographers had moved on to other assignments, Mr. Margules continued to spend time with the rescue workers, putting in hundreds of hours at the firehouses, attending funerals and family gatherings, even spending a lonely New Year's Eve at Firehouse 10-10 in lower Manhattan.
As the final prize was announced tonight at a black-tie dinner of about 500 guests, Mr. Frayn, also 69, stood up to embrace his wife, who told the gathering, "I spent most of this evening praying that I would not win this prize so that I wouldn't have to get up here and say anything".
Most of the postdoc attendees are involved in active or fledgling postdoc associations, and the bulk of the gathering was spent exchanging ideas and suggestions for these groups.
