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...cancer have drawn nearly even with men's. That's something of an epidemiological sea change - back in 1965, only two out of 10 Americans who died from smoking were women, and now that number is four in 10. The numbers of men and women who smoke mirror the shift: In 1964, 52 percent of men and 34 percent of women smoked. Today, 26 percent of men and 22 percent of women light...
...into change," he says. So he sought to make the lessons deeply personal. Part group therapy, part confessional, the course asks cops first to talk about how they have been humiliated in their lives. In Bosnia police noted that their superiors strip-searched them at the end of each shift to take whatever bribes they had collected. In Latin America cops complained of being regularly forced to do menial work, like building houses for their bosses...
Next, officers are invited to talk about the things they have done that violated the dignity of others. Role-playing exercises require them to step into a suspect's shoes. Over the course of three days, the cops, most of whom are shift commanders, are forced to confront themselves and their past. In one session, a police officer from El Salvador admitted that his superiors told him a prisoner he was escorting should be killed. "I got a hero's medal for murder," he told the stunned class...
...mythic epic narrative which has as its center a female consciousness," says James Schamus, one of the film's writers and producers. "In all the great epics, from the Iliad on, the protagonists have been masculine, their destinies a masculine destiny. Now a real shift is taking place, in which some collective identities--those created for the whole culture regardless of gender--are female...
...CATA model has its flaws. Such a fundamental shift in how our country counts race will most likely have repercussions that are impossible to anticipate. And the numbers are indeed fuzzy. Many people--possibly 70% or more of African Americans, for example--could have checked more than one box but did not, for a host of reasons. Moreover, by asking people to self-identify, the Census Bureau's tabulations don't begin to measure the way race is typically assessed in our society. In my day-to-day life, it is thousands of unofficial, unsolicited enumerators who make the call...