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Which risks get excessive attention and which get overlooked depends on a hierarchy of factors. Perhaps the most important is dread. For most creatures, all death is created pretty much equal. Whether you're eaten by a lion or drowned in a river, your time on the savanna is over. That's not the way humans see things. The more pain or suffering something causes, the more we tend to fear it; the cleaner or at least quicker the death, the less it troubles us. "We dread anything that poses a greater risk for cancer more than the things that...
...probably guess who's going to win the struggle for these young souls. And once the film begins to unfold you will with equal ease see the chink in Hector's armor. He is a gay man, given to groping his students when he gives them rides home on his motorcycle. The kids are entirely unshocked by this behavior. As far as they're concerned its just part of Hector's wayward charm. Not so the headmaster, when the teacher is caught out. He's never much liked Hector's classroom style and the question of whether the teacher will...
...have to make much. The flurry of films that followed MASH were no blockbusters, but they helped shaped a generation's idea of its own potential, and of the cinema's. Altman subverted genres like the western (McCabe & Mrs. Miller) and the private-eye thriller (The Long Goodbye) with equal parts energy and anomie...
...Latino workers.” At last night’s meeting—the second one on this topic—three of the four workers and members of their families, over ten undergraduates, one graduate student, and two union representatives formed the Harvard Coalition for Respect and Equality at Work (CREW). One of the workers, Jaime Moreno, who said he has been employed as an animal technician at Harvard for nine years, described instances of workplace discrimination, such as lack of promotion of Latino workers, prohibition on the use of Spanish, and segregation at workers’ meetings...
...numbers are startling. A study by the Center for Equal Opportunity found that Asian-American applicants to selective colleges have significantly higher test scores than applicants of other races. For example, in 2005, the median test score for Asian students offered admission to the University of Michigan was 50 points higher than the median score for white students, 140 points higher than Hispanic students, and 240 points higher than black students. (The SAT used a 1600-point scale at the time...