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...worth half that of a man's. Under Shari'a, or Muslim law, compensation for the murder of a woman is half the going rate for men. In many Muslim countries, these directives are incorporated into contemporary law. For a woman to prove rape in Pakistan, for example, four adult males of "impeccable" character must witness the penetration, in accordance with Shari...
...Adult children of retirees want their parents to stay nearby. "This all makes you realize just how precious family is and that you don't want your loved ones living thousands of miles away at a time like this," says one of the Greenbergs' daughters, Caroline Crespo...
College is traditionally seen as a time for freedom and exploration, and an adult authority figure living just next door naturally dampers the rush of newfound independence. But it doesn’t have to be that way, says Matthews proctor Jennifer K. Little: “If you build an atmosphere of mutual trust and friendship in the entryway, students will abide by the necessary rules out of a desire to avoid disappointing you.” Crystal Winston ’05, a member of Little’s proctor group, would agree. She finds that...
...Gallup Organization found that about 40 percent of American high school seniors did not know when the Civil War occurred and that most couldn't describe the differences between World War I and World War II. Another Gallup poll cited by Parenti found that 60 percent of adult Americans were unable to name the president who ordered the atomic bomb to be dropped on Japan, and 22 percent had no idea that such an attack ever occurred. Parenti also notes that a 1995 survey in the New York Times found that only 49 percent of U.S. adults knew that...
...TIME: What motivated you to write about the life of children in Afghanistan? Ellis: I'd been doing solidarity work with women in Afghanistan for a couple of years back in Canada and I was in Pakistan interviewing women for an adult non- fiction book called 'Women of the Afghan War'. I met a woman whose daughter was in Kabul doing what the girl in the novel does, masquerading as a boy to earn a living for her family, and I thought that would make a really interesting children's novel...