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According to a paper published Monday in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association, fewer than 8% of all Americans can now be considered at low risk for heart disease. No one needs a statistician's help to know that that means more than 92% of us are not as healthy as we could be, and that's worth paying attention...
...possible that in some cases, particularly with first-time, nonviolent offenders, early-release initiatives could actually help reduce crime. "There are two effects of incarceration," says criminologist Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa. "One is specific deterrence - you go to prison, and you say, 'Holy s___, I don't want to go through that again.' That is the crime-reducing component of prison. But the other effect of incarceration is criminalization. You have connection with gangs. You have diminished opportunities after you get out - and therefore you have some higher chance of returning to crime. Lots...
Some states, like Colorado, are launching new efforts to help the recently released find housing and secure other social services. California has allocated some $42 million for an entire re-entry facility - a former prison for women - where inmates within a year of release will get training and, if needed, substance-abuse counseling. But other states may be flirting with disaster by cutting re-entry programs even as they let some inmates go early. The state of Washington was having trouble releasing some of its inmates early because they had no place to live. Now the state is helping roughly...
...heading for a failed and shameful 2010 World Cup. It is also true, though, that the new black élite, beneficiaries of the Black Economic Empowerment, have joined the white élite and have turned their backs on the masses of poor people whom they are supposed to help. There is a ray of hope. Our new President, Jacob Zuma, seems sincere in his promises to change the situation of the millions of poor people who elected him. Mariano Castrillon, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA...
...like gay marriage and climate change. He oversaw the complex negotiations that led to the last big intake of new countries to the E.U. and boasts, if his straightforward delivery can be called a boast, of knowing most of Europe's leaders. Those connections, and his political heft, will help in his new role. "I'm a reformer," he says. "I want to continue the transformation and reform of NATO...