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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Prisons are not safe places: they create more crime than they cure and the risk of victimization by violent or sexual assault is at least times more for people in prison than in normal society. It is despicable that we take away people’s liberty and dignity so readily under mass incarceration. Worse, while under the state’s so-called care, they are placed in toxic, dangerous, and frightening environments, and we are surprised when they commit more crimes after their release. Increasing the number of correctional officers and placing people in solitary confinement...

Author: By Rachel M Singh | Title: Mass Incarcerations Causing Massive Problems | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...Corzine wants county and municipal governments to forego more than $500 million in pension payments in the coming year as a way of avoiding higher property taxes. And California and Arizona, where property values have tumbled as much as 30%, are faced with borrowing billions of dollars to cure their ailing budgets. "It's not just a problem for folks here," Lindsey says. "It's a problem for folks everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Does Your Devalued Home Have Such a High Tax Rate? | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

...three scenarios, saying, "I hate it when black people do that," "Clumsy n______" or nothing at all. None of the people in the two other study groups experienced the interactions directly; one group watched them on video and the other simply read about them. (See The Cure for Racism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Racist Attitudes Are Still Ingrained | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

Indeed, it would be hard to argue against promoting the use of an intelligence enhancer if it were risk-free and available to everyone. Imagine a legion of cancer researchers on smart drugs, racing toward a cure. Or how about a better class of Wall Street executives, blessed with improved thinking and wiser judgment? Considering the torrent of negative public responses to the Nature editorial, however, many Americans appear to regard enhancement as cheating, unnatural or a rationalization of drug abuse. But ask these bioethicists, and they'll say it's not cheating at all - as long as everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Popping Smart Pills: The Case for Cognitive Enhancement | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...stock - had reporters across the country scrambling for answers. What condition could cause the "hormone imbalance that has been robbing [him] of the proteins [his] body needs to be healthy" and result in such dramatic weight loss? And in what scenario would that condition entail a "nutritional problem" whose cure is "relatively simple and straightforward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Ailing Steve Jobs? Medical Opinion Varies | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

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