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...individuals, but rather, is applied to larger groups encompassing those individuals. This research may shed light on the origins of social prejudices. “Children prefer the lucky to the unlucky,” said Kristina R. Olson, a Harvard graduate student in psychology and a co-author of the study. “They extend that preference beyond the individual to entire social groups.” The tendency towards extension is particularly significant, according to Olson, because it may be key to understanding certain stubborn social inequities and their possible roots in the perceptions...
...Author Daphne Oz, a junior at Princeton University, serves up a neat summary of every piece of health advice you’ve ever received since age two. Specifically aimed at college students who are grappling with typical college lifestyle adjustments, Oz offers advice not only for diet and exercise, but enlightening suggestions as to how to increase your happiness. “Go with what your inner Coco Chanel tells you,” she says...
Peter W. Galbraith, a former U.S. ambassador to Croatia who has advised the Kurds on constitutional issues, is the author of The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without...
...film starring Julie Andrews and based on P.L. Travers' stories--so long to make the leap from screen to stage has to do mainly with boring adult things like copyrights. In 1993 London theater impresario Cameron Mackintosh bought the rights to the Mary Poppins stories from their nonagenarian author (who was never happy with the Disney movie, which she felt prettified her material). But Disney had the rights to the film, including the all-important songs. The two eventually got together in a collaboration for the theater history books: Disney, the studio that virtually reinvented the family musical, and Mackintosh...
...Since 9/11, journalists have been routinely denied access to the facility, its staff and inmates. But Eric Robert Rudolph, who is serving life without parole at the prison for the fatal bombings at the Atlanta Olympics and an abortion clinic in Alabama, has written letters to me, the author of a book about his case, and to his mother Patricia Rudolph, who has shared them with me. These missives offer a unique first-hand account of life on Bombers...