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...often have to put sleep down as a scheduled activity in your iCal, if you frequently miss meals because they aren't time-efficient, or if you panic when your shower is two minutes longer than planned, you might be a Harvard student—at least, according to this article in Harvard Magazine...
...main dangers of reality TV aren't to the viewers but to the participants and those around them. The Heenes were lucky the Balloon Boy hoax was just embarrassing and not deadly. But the sleaziest, and saddest, aspect of their whole story was the implication that their kids were being raised to think it was all a normal thing that people do to help the family business. As Falcon Heene blurted to his dad on Larry King Live, "You guys said that we did this for the show...
...believe people get tired of helping--only that they get tired of feeling helpless. The challenge arises when we witness what health crusader Paul Farmer calls "stupid deaths": death in childbirth, death by mosquito, death, in the case of Haiti, from infections that spread when crushed limbs aren't amputated fast enough. Help never arrives fast enough because no two disasters are alike and chaos is an agile enemy. So I wondered how we would feel, after texting our $10 donations to the Red Cross and writing checks to Save the Children, still coming home night after night...
Habib's salons aren't India's poshest, but that's not the point. Over the past decade, the New Delhi native has brought branded hairstyling to a country where millions still get their hair trimmed by mummy-ji in the bathroom or by barbers whose salons consist of a tree trunk with a mirror tacked onto it. Habib has helped convince middle India that hair is not just something that grows on your head but a market waiting to be primped and tugged at. "People used to think hair care was a low-grade profession, with no future...
...foreign relief agencies seem unable to deliver in appreciable quantities more than a month after the earthquake. "Clearly, they're waiting for more from their government and the international community," Bellerive concedes. "When you still have 10% of your population living in the streets, when basic human shelter problems aren't resolved yet, you can't say you're satisfied...