Word: behaviorism
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...Angela Merkel's government into a public moral dilemma. Should it pay the $3.5 million the informant was reported to have demanded - which the media said could help the country recoup some $140 million in lost tax revenue - or turn down the offer because it amounted to rewarding criminal behavior? (See a TIME photo-essay on East Germany...
...certainly tempting to say their lives are wasted, meaningless—but so, to some extent, are everyone’s. We’re shown the end product of this lifestyle when several of the cast’s parents, who openly endorse their children’s behavior, come to visit the house. If they’re the “after” to the housemates’ “before,” they’re not doing so bad—they’re mostly the same, if more sun-damaged...
...they are colorful, but the reader is never given enough information to theorize about their motives. An epiphany concerning Tassie’s employers near the end of the novel explains some of their actions, but it ultimately reveals more contradictions than solutions to the mystery of their behavior. In the hands of a writer less observant of human nature, the enigmatic behavior of the supporting characters would rob the novel of its internal consistency. But Tassie’s observations of the people around her are often skewed by her misunderstandings of her new city and her employers...
...Hood, Texas, in November concluded that the military was ill equipped to identify threats within its ranks. The report recommended that several officers be investigated for lax supervision of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of the murders, who was allowed to serve despite unease about his behavior...
Research by agencies like the Minnesota Department of Corrections has found that a stable home is the strongest guarantor of sound post-incarceration behavior among sex offenders. What's more, Jill Levenson, an expert on sex offenders, says the no-loitering zones are more effective than unreasonable residency restrictions aimed at keeping predators away from kids. "They provide an increased public-safety benefit," says Levenson, a professor of human services at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. "One of the biggest flaws in the residency restrictions is that the offenders couldn't sleep near these places but could wander around...