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Several refusenik soldiers rang Rabbi Re'em Hacohen, a former teacher of theirs at a yeshiva, or religious seminary, in the West Bank. "They were all loyal and responsible citizens, wracked by the decision whether to obey their superiors," says the rabbi, who urged them to act "with a clear...
KARL ROVE, on his decision to step down as President Bush's senior political adviser at the end of August
WARNING LABEL The Bush Administration is making plans to declare Iran's élite military branch, the Revolutionary Guard Corps, a "specially designated global terrorist" group. The decision has reportedly been in the works for months as tensions have escalated over Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions and support for anti...
In 2002, he and Gerd Gigerenzer, a psychologist at Berlin's Max Planck Institute for Human Development, dubbed this effect the recognition heuristic and started detailing how it is used to manipulate consumer decision making. Gigerenzer's new book, Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, describes a study in...
Christopher Barrett, an economist at Cornell University who has studied food aid programs, said CARE's decision to abandon monetized food aid removes the taboo that has surrounded discussion over whether U.S. grain shipped to hungry mouths could actually be harmful. "The fact that they are willing to forgo significant...