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...Supporters of repatriation argue that theft alone isn't reason enough to give up the fight to return such important cultural artifacts to their rightful birth places. "Of course museums like those in Turkey need to be improved and more people need to have access to these works," says Gul Pulhan, a Yale-educated Near Eastern archeologist and assistant professor at Istanbul's Koc University. "But the solution is not to insist on this idea that richer nations are more entitled to these artifacts...
That occurs at the very time when a baby's galloping growth rate is beginning to taper. A child typically triples its birth weight during the first 12 months, but babies don't normally approach the quadruple mark until their second birthday. With growth slowing, toddlers need fewer calories per kilogram than infants, but not many parents seem to know that. In fact, because toddlers tend to be pickier than infants and are less interested in sitting still for a meal, parents often grow concerned that their kids aren't eating enough. "It becomes a vicious cycle where the parent...
...study has proved that cooking with Teflon is harmful to humans. But DuPont paid $107.6 million in 2004 to settle a lawsuit brought by some 50,000 people who lived along the Ohio River near its West Virginia plant. They claimed PFOA contamination had caused birth defects and other health problems. The company admitted no liability but in December 2005 made a settlement with the EPA based on eight violations for failing to disclose its own findings on the safety of PFOA. This April, hearings began in a class action against the company by nonstick-cookware users from 15 states...
...homecoming of American college women,” as Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz have termed it.THE ROAD HOMEAccording to a forthcoming article by Goldin and Katz in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, the rise in the median marriage age and the advent of the birth control pill mean that women expect to spend more years in the workforce. In college, women are “no longer...majoring in a handful of female-intensive fields,” Goldin and Katz write. Women are increasingly majoring in the same subjects as men as females realize they?...
...truck drivers, drug addiction, and HIV—rough, troubled authenticity. Then one day, poof, he disappears, leaving behind unsettling doubts—how much of our own reality depends on artificial, constructed truths?Our personal identity has been constructed for us. Immersed in media from the moment of birth, we’ve already seen every meaningful moment of our existence enacted a thousand times on the TV screen. From meeting the parents to soft crying at a funeral, movies and television have carefully prepared us for how to act in any given situation; there are no more authentic...