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...maybe that's not the exact mechanism we want. But by and large, policymakers are reluctant to "take away" people's homes. And that's a problem in itself. Here we're up against macroeconomic forces bigger than we are. There's something to be said for trying to influence where housing is headed--but there may be greater benefit in understanding that it will be a long road to recovery. And the most effective thing we can do is make it less painful for people along...
Freedom isn't a problem for Houser. As a storyteller, he feels as though he's lucked into the lawless, Wild West period of video games. "It's not academicized," he says. "There's no orthodoxy on how things are done, so we can do whatever we want. We make it up as we go along!" As for the ongoing debate about whether games are art, he couldn't care less. That's what critics get paid for. "As soon as we get told, 'Yes, games are high art. They're almost as high as painting and slightly less than...
...what does it take to motivate people to stick to the path set by their conscious brain? How can good choices be made to seem more appealing than bad ones? The problem stumps doctors, public-health officials and weight-loss experts, but one solution may spring from an unlikely source. Meet your new personal trainer: your boss...
...personal health, since worker illness costs them billions each year in insurance claims, sick days and high staff turnover. A 2008 survey of major U.S. employers found that 64% consider their employees' poor health decisions a serious barrier to affordable insurance coverage. Now some companies are tackling the motivation problem head on, using tactics drawn from behavioral psychology to nudge their employees to get healthy...
...black schools, Savannah included, have their problems. Nationwide, 41% of black students graduate from college within six years (for white students, the figure is 59%). The rate is lower at the majority of HBCUs, which often accept low-performing students who may not have been given a chance elsewhere. At Savannah State, the figure hovers around 35%. A bigger problem is money: HBCUs are chronically underfunded, and Savannah State--with an endowment of just $3.4 million, compared with Armstrong's $7.9 million--is no exception. Harp expects the merger to help close that gap, an aspect of the plan that...