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...Economic growth] has done its work for us," says Richard Wilkinson, professor of medical epidemiology at the University of Nottingham, whose work has shown that wealth equality is far more important to population well-being than overall wealth. "We have reached the point, after millennia, in which raising material living standards is no longer the best way of improving quality of life. In wealthy countries, we now need to turn our attention to other factors, such as the quality of our social interactions...
...Attempts by feminists to chastise other women for failing to assume a suitably feminist outlook have by and large failed. Take, for example, Naomi Wolf, author of “The Beauty Myth.” The phrase describes the idealized standard of beauty whose realization is upheld in Western culture as the end-all task of being female. Yet, despite the myth’s devastating implications—self-loathing, eating disorders, bodily mutilation via plastic surgery—no woman wants to be patronized into giving up eyeliner and lipstick. Nor does she want to be told...
Police said yesterday that the death of Annie Le—the Yale graduate student whose body was discovered stuffed into the basement wall of her lab building—was a targeted killing and not an act of random violence, though officials declined to name a suspect as the investigation continued...
...commitment to establishing a stable Afghan state and squelching the resurgent Taliban makes it critical for the United States to win the support of the Afghan people, and should the human rights violations at Bagram—some of whose denizens have been held there for over six years and two of whom were killed in 2002 due to beatings by American soldiers—persist, it would be counterproductive to this effort and to America’s moral status in the world...
...city police department have consistently refused to comment on the case. But Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, says police officers are not out to systematically punish people who mouth off. "There is certainly no substitute for good judgment on the street," says Pasco, whose organization represents officers nationwide, including Pittsburgh, "and if in the officer's judgment, maintenance of order is going to be preserved by giving a citation or making an arrest, then the officer is going to use his judgment to make that arrest or issue that citation." (See pictures of Henry Louis...