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...York Times, indicates that social status may be an additional factor in assuring good health and longevity. Medical researchers are not sure what exactly accounts for the better health of people in higher socioeconomic classes, but the research suggests that the phenomenon may be due to something beyond the circular fact that people in higher classes tend to have better health habits -- such as not smoking -- than those in lower classes. Researchers believe that one key factor responsible for the observed differences may be the lower stress -- and lesser accompanying vulnerability to disease -- encountered by those on the higher rungs...
...police pull over more people of color because they fit a certain profile, then naturally they will tend to arrest more people of color for whatever infractions they uncover." The results of the arrests can then be used unfairly to justify the practice. Critics say this is a circular standard, and that it can be applied against any group of people police wish to target. Moreover, says Rivera, leading critics who have seen the criteria set forth in the profiles report that the descriptions are vague and inconsistent, and easily susceptible to being used unfairly...
...course in transcendentalism--the belief that the beauty of the natural world is a manifestation of divinity--as well as exhibits about transcendentalist writers Emerson, Thoreau and Bronson Alcott. They were all friends and neighbors, and the galleries reflect their coziness. A room replicating Emerson's study contains his circular writing table and books often borrowed by Louisa May Alcott. Next door is the Thoreau gallery, with the desk, bed and chair from that famous rustic cabin Thoreau built on Emerson's land at Walden Pond, as well as Thoreau's walking stick, notched in inches so that he could...
More than one potential hero has been crushed by the crowd of pretenders to the throne. They get shoved aside in political primaries, dumped in the circular file at the offices of various publication, passed up for professorships and passed over for jobs. And the "heroes" who do make it, or at least the pretenders to that title, have been installed as our role models--at the expense of people who excel primarily at softening that ground. Our professors are leaders in their fields first, teachers of their craft second. The Kennedy School itself is staffed almost entirely...
...When I questioned people about it, theirreasoning seemed to be circular," Augustine says."There were things being said like, "Women are notas funny...