Word: conscious
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Rebecca Elswit was born to be radical. "I've had the fire in my belly since I was 3 years old," she says. Rebecca's parents raised her to be politically conscious (her mother is a professor, her dad a lawyer). In high school and college, she campaigned for women's rights before turning her attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Last summer she waded into the intifadeh, living in the occupied territories and engaging in "loving and nonviolent action against the Israeli government...
...indulgence. "This season our truffle sales have doubled," says Covell. Event producer Francesca Abbracciamento, of Francesca Events, whose clients include Bill Clinton and Conan O'Brien, says, "Truffles have replaced the chocolate-dipped strawberry as the quintessential, elegant petit four." The treat is even being adapted for the health conscious. Veganstore.com a website for vegan products, carries a line of organic chocolate truffles. Pure De-lite Truffles, a maker of low-carb truffles, claims that its products are not only sugar-free but also free of wax, preservatives and artificial flavors. You can eat these truffles and not feel like...
Each release of an audio-or videotape alleged to be of bin Laden alerts the intelligence communities of the world to an impending assault. Security forces increase their vigilance, intelligence communities go on red alert, and local citizens become more safety conscious. Any possible terrorist activity will automatically be more difficult to accomplish after an advance warning has been given. So why would a terrorist want to give us advance warning? I am not convinced for a moment that these tapes are authentic. I believe they are designed to keep the flames of Western paranoia burning brightly, so that...
...used to justify a cigarette tax—that the government should protect people from their bad choices because of its compelling interest in the health of its citizenry—is unpersuasive. It is incredibly paternalistic and condescending toward the tens of millions of Americans who make the conscious decision to start smoking, knowing the harmful health effects associated with it. The logic of the argument is that smokers’ loss of liberty is less important than the government’s compelling interest in smoker’s health, and the underlying assumption is that the government...
...better off cigarette-free in the long run, a tax discouraging smoking actually makes smokers happier. This argument also relies on the government-knows-best assumption, along with the idea that since smoking is addictive and people get hooked when they are young, they never make a conscious rational decision to smoke. While some individuals might be happier as tax-induced former smokers, second-order effects simply should not be used to justify public policy unless supported by very strong evidence. The entire web of logic underpinning the tax increase unfolds easily if the tenuous assumptions behind it prove untrue...