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...boys admitted to having carried a gun or a knife or been in at least one physical fight in the previous year. But the girls were not far behind, at 25%. And when the violence is girl-on-girl, it can get especially ugly. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, co-author of Sugar & Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence and professor of public health at the Harvard School of Public Health, meets with teachers and administrators around the country and is taken aback by what she hears. "Principals talk about not only the increased number of girl...
...labeled as containing profanity, according to the study. “Kids spend six hours a day consuming entertainment material,” Thompson said. “Parents need to be aware of actual content.” Karen G. Tepichin, a Harvard Law School student and co-author of the study, spent months quantifying the content of video games second-by-second. The inconsistency in labeling “really confuses parents and consumers in forming a judgment on how appropriate the game is,” Tepichin said. Thompson said, “While we didn?...
...Princeton bioethics professor is co-author of the forthcoming book The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter I nominate Jeffrey Sachs and Bono for setting the world an achievable goal that is also a moral imperative: the end of extreme poverty by 2025. They made that an issue the 2005 G-8 summit had to take up. Though the measures adopted there were less dramatic than many hoped, if the rhetoric is turned into reality, it will make a huge difference for hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people...
Attractiveness does not make a person better at mazes, said co-author of the study Tanya S. Rosenblat, a Wesleyan assistant professor of economics...
...stays in the country. A recent study by economists at the University of North Carolina found that Hispanic residents, 45% of whom were undocumented, contributed $9.2 billion in spending to North Carolina's economy in 2004. By taking the least desirable jobs, says John Kasarda, a co-author of the study, "they have kept some industries competitive that would have gone to Mexico and China...