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...practicalism is coming to a boil. Now, there is only one child per family, and the importance of birth order and gender is an obsolete concept. Now, the New Oriental School is singing a self-important and idealistic tune. Now, drunk Leo at the bar is asking me what I think of the Chinese. There is a struggle for self-definition, for introspection, for something newer, more ideal...

Author: By Maria Y. Xia | Title: Metaphors | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...core, though, he was a storyteller for everyone. "The lessons I have learned are not limited to race, gender or sexual orientation," Harris said upon publishing his memoir, What Becomes of the Brokenhearted. "Anyone can overcome a broken heart. Every life is a story worth telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E. Lynn Harris | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...Insurers have agreed to discontinue practices like turning down customers in the individual and small-group market who have expensive pre-existing conditions and basing premium rates on health status and gender. But one variable that will persist is age, since older enrollees represent more health risks than younger enrollees, and insurers are doing their best to retain the most flexibility in that area. Current reform legislation in the House and the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee would allow insurers to vary premiums on the basis of age only by a factor of two, meaning insurers would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Insurers Are Trying to Get Out of Health Reform | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

...fair to the mayor, President Lee hasn't done much either to improve a better sense of gender equality in South Korea. In the 2007-08 Gender Empowerment Measure of the United Nations Human Development Report Office, South Korea ranked low at 64 out of 93 countries. James Turnbull, who writes about Korean gender issues in his blog, Grand Narrative, says that at an Emergency Economy Management Council meeting in January, Lee was quoted by the press as saying, "The most urgent issue on our hands is to create jobs for the heads of households." In other words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will High-Heel-Friendly Streets Keep Seoul's Women Happy? | 8/5/2009 | See Source »

...Naturally, America is nowhere near perfect when it comes to gender equality and any sort of idealized notion of fidelity. But regardless of whether or not it is followed, everyone in the U.S. generally accepts that it is “wrong” to be unfaithful to one’s significant other. In E.G. this is not the case...

Author: By James A. Mcfadden | Title: Africa is for Lovers | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

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