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...public-health experts are beginning to wonder whether certain health-related behaviors are just as contagious as microbes. If you're struggling with your weight, did you in effect catch a case of fat by learning poor eating and exercise habits from a friend or family member who was similarly infected by someone else? If you smoke, do you light up because you were behaviorally contaminated by smokers who convinced you of the coolness of the habit? Even more important, if such unhealthy behaviors are contagious, are healthy ones--like quitting smoking or exercising--equally so? And what...
...enforcement, setting cars ablaze and torching the city's Christmas tree (above). Fueled by frustration over unemployment and official corruption, thousands of Greeks smashed storefront windows and cars as union and transit workers staged a national strike. "It's very simple: we want the government to fall," a member of the Socialist Workers Party said on Dec. 9 as 10,000 people marched on Parliament...
Surprisingly, the leaders of the very movement Jaruzelski crushed agree--and have emerged among his staunchest defenders. Former activist Kazimierz Kutz, now a member of parliament, says Jaruzelski's actions allowed moderates on both sides to prevail, eventually leading to the Round Table talks that brought a peaceful end to Poland's communist regime in 1989. Even Lech Walesa, the legendary Solidarity leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner who was interned for almost a year in the clampdown, has said that Jaruzelski would have been considered a "great patriot" had he lived in different times and that the trial...
...lend relief to this troubling situation, those actions are not enough. Seeds of change are more likely to be successful if sewn closer to the root of the problem. To this end, the African Union (AU) ought to play a larger role in quelling this crisis. Zimbabwe is a member of the AU, and the peace-promoting body has made Zimbabwe and Mugabe’s questionable regime focal points of debate for much of the last decade. At an AU summit earlier this year, a handful of member-states called for the suspension of Zimbabwe from...
...river—350 acres in Allston—than it owns in Cambridge—225 acres. “The last thing that we want is for Harvard to slow down and to stop developing its property in Allston,” said Task Force member Harry Mattison. “If Harvard owns these properties and really can’t afford to improve them, they should sell them to someone who can.” Mattison suggested that Harvard think of creative temporary uses for the land—rather than leaving it undeveloped?...