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Just think of the child developmental benefits of a totally benign street sign. Kids will no longer be mocked for living on Hooker Street, but rather for normal things like haircuts and clothing. There is, of course, the danger that they will be ridiculed for having previously lived on Hooker Street until their mommies altered its name on their behalf. Closer empirical analysis reveals, however, that homeowners are wealthy enough to buy their children stuff that will ease the short-term pain caused by such accusations...
...calmly sipping a Seven-Up and explaining why he wasn't afraid of death. It was his faith, he said, that made it possible for him to risk his life to do his job: ensuring that even members of Saddam's brutal regime got a fair trial. Despite the danger of assassination-a second member of the defense team was killed last month-he put his fate in the hands of God. "I believe now we are sitting together," he told TIME in the cafeteria of the Iraqi Bar Association on Monday, "but tomorrow maybe we cannot sit together because...
...community obligations, yet 56% believe that their employers don't recognize their responsibilities outside the workplace. Most alarming, 39% of minority women executives say the subtle prejudices in the workplace have alienated and disengaged them from their jobs; 1 in 5 has considered quitting. "Corporate America is in danger of letting this valuable talent slip through its fingers," says Hewlett...
Demitra Jones was never in danger of getting lost in the shuffle. At just 18, she was placed as an intern with Pitney Bowes--a mail-and-document-management company in Stamford, Conn.-- by Inroads, a career-development group for urban minority youths. A member of the black sorority Delta Sigma Theta who worked at Inroads was Jones' first mentor, coaching her on "how to behave in the corporate environment." At Pitney she met Michael Holmes, its African-American director of diversity and at the time a director of Inroads, who also mentored her. The internship continued throughout college...
Your article "Biochips For Everyone!", on computer microchips that can be implanted in humans, set off alarm bells [Oct. 24]. While each chip contains a personal ID number that could be scanned like a bar code and provide needed medical data, there is a serious danger. The government or anyone smart enough to hack a security system could end up using biochips to track a person's movements and activity. Should biochips become commonly used, people might then be forced to have them implanted. And if that happened, anyone without a biochip could not function in this society...