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The fact is that minorities and the underprivileged are among the populations in the U.S. who are statistically at higher risk of early death than, say, wealthy white Americans, according to government data. The irony, Borowsky says, is that these fatalistic belief systems may help perpetuate the tendency toward poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do Some Teens Behave Recklessly? | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

However, previous white-collar criminals have received far stiffer sentences that Sorkin's proposed 12-year term. Adelphia Communications' former finance chief Timothy Rigas is serving a 20-year term; former WorldCom chief executive Bernard Ebbers, who was 63 at the time of his sentencing, was given 25 years; and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Penalty for 'Extraordinary Evil': Madoff Gets 150 Years | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

Wheel Questions began in Monsarrat’s backyard rock garden in July 2008, after he was inspired by The Love Guru—a Mike Myers film that received a whopping 14% approval rating on rottentomatoes.com (clearly quality)—and felt the idea was �...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: Any Questions? | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

Proposition 13 was the brainchild of the late Howard Jarvis. The antitax crusader was a policy genius not unlike Franklin D. Roosevelt. Both shared an affinity for designing deep structural change that, once embedded in the political system, is nearly impossible to alter without a massive change of heart by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of Proposition 13 | 6/27/2009 | See Source »

So we're stuck at square one. As the 40th anniversary of Stonewall approaches, the question that Alan Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa ask in their 2007 book about evolutionary psychology, Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, has never been more relevant: Will "the liberation of homosexuals, which allows them to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Some Animals (and People) Are Gay | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

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