Word: behavior
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...executive. But McKinnon said what people pledge online might not materialize into action. “Some people might just check the boxes and get on with their life,” she said. McKinnon also emphasized that environmental problems cannot only be solved by individual changes in behavior. “It has to be a whole institutional change—life-style changes, as well as lobbying your congressman and senator,” she said. Jaclyn Olsen, assistant director of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, said that she has heard positive stories from students, staff, and faculty...
...avoid a repeat of the 2004 election, where waits of two hours occurred when poll watchers and election challengers wrongly disrupted the flow of voters. Five different groups are sending observers into 17 Grand Rapids polling sites, where they'll be under strict new state guidelines governing their behavior. First and foremost? No talking directly to voters. (In Chicago, a reporter was reprimanded for trying to ask former radical Bill Ayers who he voted for.) - By Maggie Sieger / Grand Rapids
...relationship between exposure of this kind of content on TV and the risk of later pregnancy is fairly strong," says Anita Chandra, a behavioral scientist and the study's author. "Even if it were diminished by other contributing factors, the association still holds." Such consistent exposure may explain in part why the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is double that of other industrialized nations. Chandra and her team interviewed 1,461 teens ages 12 to 17 by phone, speaking to them three times between 2001 and '04. While previous studies exploring the effect of TV content on teen pregnancy relied...
...annual holiday survey, with 11% reporting that they're still paying off holiday debt from last year. Shoppers indicated they would purchase a lot fewer gifts this year - 21.5 presents on average compared with 23.1 last year. Almost seven in 10 said they intend to change their shopping behavior because of the economy; 81% say they plan to buy more sale items. "Over the last few holiday seasons consumers would buy for themselves too as they shopped, but there will be a pullback on this," says Janiak from Deloitte. The good news: those who received a federal government stimulus check...
...Neither the black-and-white, “with us or against us” ideology of George W. Bush, nor the stubbornness that John McCain and Sarah Palin like to describe as the behavior of “mavericks,” will create the change we need. But the knee-jerk rejection of all things Republican is similarly insufficient...