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...that eating ice cream makes people happier than eating yogurt or chocolate. Another drawback of scanners: lying in one is hardly a natural environment to watch TV or spot brands. But anticipated smaller versions that let subjects sit up under contraptions that resemble salon hair dryers should increase the comfort factor...
...idea that "you don't have to give up the American Dream. You just see it as a sign of God's blessing," says Edith Blumhofer, director of Wheaton College's Center for the Study of American Evangelicals. Indeed, a last-gasp resistance to this embrace of wealth and comfort can be observed in the current evangelical brawl over whether comfortable megachurches (like Osteen's and Warren's) with pumped-up day-care centers and high-tech amenities represent a slide from glorifying an all-powerful God to asking what custom color you would prefer he paint your pews...
...APOLOGY DENIED. To Chen Yabian, 79, and seven other Chinese "comfort women" held as sex slaves by Japanese soldiers during World War II, in what is expected to be the last of several lawsuits against the Japanese government for war crimes; by the Tokyo District Court; in Tokyo. While the court acknowledged that Japanese soldiers had abducted and repeatedly raped the wom-en?some only 14 years old at the time?it dismissed their demands for a formal apology and $200,000 each in compensation, saying that the current government could not be held responsible for Japan's wartime military...
...rare occasion, a book, a movie or, in this case, an article confronts you with enough power to jar you out of your comfort zone. Living a relatively privileged life, it is easy to lose sight of basic freedoms we take for granted: to be able to shop at a market without fearing that a bomb will go off, to trust that our justice system will treat us fairly and to have confidence that our families and friends will be alive tomorrow. Although I disagreed with the decision to initiate war in Iraq, I can now imagine the consequences...
Wait for the popular, big classes like “Justice” to roll around for some “gut”-sy goodness. Large classes like that give support to the notion that there is comfort in numbers. Also, even if you are not an Economics concentrator, Social Analysis 10 (i.e., Ec10) is a good bet for some useful knowledge, as Bush-lover Greg Mankiw has made the problem sets and exams much more straightforward and manageable. You also never know if you are going to apply for that job with Morgan Stanley...