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...five decades, she has her fair share of critics. The group Anti-Barbie was formed in 2002 by former Barbie collectors "who finally had enough of the negative impact Barbie was having on today's society," as their website states. Anti-Barbie is not the first to complain that the skinny doll instills in young girls impossible ideals of beauty. Numerous studies have looked at the effect of Barbie exposure on females of all ages, and many of their findings have not been pretty. A study published in 2006 by Developmental Psychology, an American Psychological Association journal, drew a link...
...PRODUCT OF ISRAEL and the Palestinian Authority forbids that. But he can't afford to leave the fields fallow - and open to Israeli confiscation. Three Sarras brothers and a cousin tend the fields under the constant surveillance of video cameras at the edge of a nearby settlement. They complain that settlers from the Gush Etzion bloc have come in the night and uprooted or poisoned olive trees. "I am willing to live with Israelis," Sarras says. "But they will not live with us." Shaul Goldstein, mayor of the Gush Etzion regional council, defends his community's dealings with local Arabs...
...nearly impossible to start a venture in Kurdistan without a silent partner from one of the two groups. Critics also say the parties use the allocation of jobs in schools, hospitals and government ministries as a way to enforce loyalty. And the region's few independent media outlets frequently complain of harassment. (See pictures of life returning to Iraq's streets...
...lose money on it. I also hadn't prepared for an older audience, but people with gray hair were reading it. That was unsettling because of all the cursing in the book. I was like, "Oh no, Uncle Fred is going to know I swear!" But I can't complain. I did warn Zeitoun, though. I said, "You have to know what you're getting into. This book might be huge, or it might go nowhere at all. You just never know...
...this willingness to explain policies and chat with Congress about them hasn't endeared Bernanke and the Fed to all its members. Far from it. After thanking Bernanke in his opening remarks, Bachus - the ranking Republican on the committee - went on to complain that the Fed had taken on too much authority and should restrict itself in the future to setting monetary policy. Texas Republican Ron Paul, whose calls to abolish the Fed have gotten more attention lately than they used to, claimed that "the Federal Reserve, in collaboration with giant banks, has created the greatest financial crisis ever seen...