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...almost no research on new digital media, on social networking platforms, on Internet usage, on how kids text message. That's one of the conclusions we draw in this report. There's a tremendous need from a public health standpoint to do research on these areas, because they will affect public policy and basic good parenting behavior...
...Multinational firms doing business in India make a different calculation. One terrorist attack, or even a series of them, might change their security arrangements, but it does not affect their business plans. War with Pakistan, on the other hand, is a much bigger risk, says Amitabh Dubey, director of India research for Trusted Sources, a London-based risk consultancy firm. "An increased probability of conflict - that would change people's business plans," he says. That's exactly what happened in 2001, when the two countries moved to the brink of war and companies moved their operations out of India...
...India has not yet found the political will to address its deepest problems. "Chalta hai," Indians say about everything from traffic to political corruption to substandard education - that this is the best that a poor country of 1 billion people can do. And when any of those problems affect you, with a well-placed favor and a willingness to look the other way, there's always a solution...
When a state lives with a story line of decline for so long, it doesn't just affect the mood. It becomes part of the culture. Whereas America's history has been one of expanding horizons, yours has become funnel-shaped. Much like the postbellum South, Rust Belt culture looks backward at an idealized past--a nostalgia not for plantations but for three-bedroom houses paid up on blue collar salaries. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...only a source for many people— anonymous and less so—of unjustified injury and cruelty, but also pose serious problems for economic prosperity and democratic self-government as well.” Sunstein described the specific social and psychological tendencies to believe rumors that could affect the press and the spread of information. He began with an investigation of the social and psychological factors that prompt individuals to engage in the spread of rumors, and how we, in groups, reinforce our own beliefs in false information. Sunstein described three social psychological mechanisms that propagate the spread...