Word: freedom
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...latest science suggests that yes, we can. Studies of all kinds of human frailties are revealing how to help people change - not only through mandates or financial incentives but also via subtler nudges that preserve our freedom to make choices while encouraging us to make better ones, from automatic-enrollment 401(k) plans that require us to opt out if we don't want to save for retirement to smart meters that warn us about how much energy we're using. These nudges can trigger huge changes; in a 2001 study, only 36% of women joined a 401(k) plan...
...answer, of course, was less important than what Burmese living under one of the world's most Orwellian regimes thought. And what they said surprised me. Yes, some deemed the elections "useless." Others conceded that the obstacles to electoral freedom are formidable. Before a single vote is cast, Burma's elections will be rigged. The newly minted constitution ensures that top leadership posts are reserved for the military. Many members of the political opposition--including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who still languishes under house arrest--have been barred from running by regulations both arcane and outlandish...
...next time you find yourself with a little time to spare, trade your Starbucks grande macchiato for a Dunkin Donuts iced coffee, hop on the T and walk the Freedom Trail, or catch a free concert at the Hatch Shell. Go alone or with one friend, not as a part of an organization or program. Although it is not something shiny to put on your resume, leaving Harvard to explore New England is a conscious decision that we should all make at least once during our four years here...
...financial storms may have only gathered recently, but noisy, tempestuous crowds like this one have been banding together on London's street for years - securing the freedom of prisoners in the 17th century, protesting the lack of rights for women in the early 1900s and railing against an unpopular tax just under two decades ago. As always, the mood today was mercurial. Organizers of the gathering, a movement calling itself G-20 Meltdown, had promised a "peaceful and fun street party." For much of the protest, that's what they got. While anarchists, many dressed from head...
...feminists, who deny the possibility of female empowerment through sexuality, as this term is constituted within a patriarchal culture where what is sexual is what gives men pleasure. The former would applaud Rolling Stone’s cover girls for assuming control over their own bodies and asserting their freedom to be sexual. The latter would lambaste the images for reducing women’s bodies to sex objects and for commercializing female sexuality to satisfy the demands of the male consumer...