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...culture has helped to propagate the myth of social Darwinism--of the survival of the fittest--that the cutthroat 'me vs. you philosophy' wins the day." (Alas, it may be that neither style will prove effective. A 2004 Stanford Graduate School of Business study found that "women who enact stereotypically supportive feminine behaviors may be liked but seen as less competent, while women who enact aggressive behaviors risk being disliked and disqualified for gendered leadership roles." Who triumphs? Traditionally masculine men, say the authors...
...promising as each of these actions may be, they remain only fragmentary, half-steps in the face of what Wootan calls Congress' "shameful" refusal to enact strong, uniform standards. What is needed is nothing short of a dietary paradigm shift...
Three survivors from the Suribachi event--John (Doc) Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford) and Ira Hayes (Adam Beach)--are brought home to receive a nation's thanks and to charm the citizens into buying more war bonds. In a packed arena the three re-enact the raising on an imitation Iwo Jima; at a banquet they are served an iced dessert in the shape of the photo. Uncomfortable with praise they never asked for, guilt ridden that they are home and their buddies fighting and dying abroad, they know that the Iwo Jima image is simply an inspirational...
...letters to officials in Florida in 2003 asking for review of teenager programs at a nudist resort, and made sex offender laws more severe this year by helping to pass the Adams Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. Now he could face prosecution under the same laws he helped enact...
...success is his relative inexperience. The Orlando native started writing at an early age. “When I was seven or eight, I liked Star Wars,” he says. “So I wrote like a little page TV series that I’d enact with my brother and my dad.” In high school, Mayer began collaborating with his older brother on an as-yet-unpublished movie script “for fun” during summer vacations. Yet Mayer had no history of participation in formal playwriting competitions before entering...