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...middle schools we have new challenges that cannot be addressed without leadership from the neighborhoods. Secondly, since there is currently no politically impartial forum sponsored by any state or municipal agency or university that engages the political realities of black youth violence on the ground the larger community must develop independent fora to effectively engage this issue...

Author: By Eugene F. Rivers iii | Title: Harvard and the Boston Miracle | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...StreetSafe Boston is a new multi-year safety and youth development initiative being sponsored by the City of Boston and a number of local non-profits. Its primary mission is to focus crime-fighting resources on roughly 6,000 young people in Boston, both violent criminals and at-risk youth. The goals are to increase engagement of at-risk youth with community programs and services, develop a feeling of safety and security in the five targeted neighborhoods, and reduce violent crime and homicides...

Author: By Joseph A. Poirier | Title: Harvard Not Doing its Part in StreetSafe | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...researcher who describes autism as a condition of the "extreme male brain" says fetuses exposed in the womb to high levels of the male hormone testosterone are more likely than others to develop autistic traits as children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Link Between Autism and Testosterone? | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...thriving shopping area popular with tourists, was effectively expropriated by the city. The entrepreneurial founder of Kelon, China's most successful refrigerator maker, had his company seized in a backdoor takeover by local officials who then ran it into the ground. Land grabs by officials intent on real estate development soared. Rural credit cooperatives backed away from entrepreneurial finance and morphed into "policy pawns and cashiers of local government." The government abandoned attempts to develop village-level democracy and instead strengthened the Communist Party in the villages. And finally, fiscal and administrative controls were centralized. The result: depressed income growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Aborted Revolution | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...universally rational” values which ultimately rest upon Western liberalism—toward intercultural and intracultural pragmatism. Article 7 of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders asserts that “everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to develop and discuss new human rights ideas and principles and to advocate their acceptance.” The HRW notes that LGBT activists, such as Mr. Diadji Diouf and his colleagues, have a high propensity for victimization via violation of Article 7.But what does this mean to the Senegalese state and the 94 percent...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Human Rights 2.0 | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

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