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...discussion, Banaji pointed to studies that show hope for overcoming mind bugs. One such study found that having friends of other races can lower implicit bias. Another found that yoga practitioners in India were able to control and lower their biases consciously. While the discussion began with an hour-long presentation by Banaji, showing the current research demonstrating the tendency to subconscious prejudices, the second hour was spent in a panel discussion where both the audience, Shelby, and the other panelist, Richard C. Lewontin ’51, Agassiz research professor, explored the implications of Banaji’s research...
...positions. The union that represents correctional workers at the ADX charged that this resulted in the facility's being staffed far below the bureau's minimum safety standards. In spring a federal arbitrator heard testimony from ADX staff that some housing units had been left unattended for entire eight-hour shifts. Union officials also charged that posts in what they call the "terrorist unit" were routinely left vacant. According to the union, staff shortages meant that inmates weren't getting meals on time, scheduled phone calls were delayed or canceled, and exercise hours were cut because there was nobody...
...When the hour is up, the slow process of moving us back to the cells begins in reverse," Rudolph writes. "And then we sit in our darkened cells for the rest of the week, staring out at the empty sun-drenched yard...
...After an hour's searching, Richards and his companion, a local hunter, found the source: a "warty brown blob" squatting on moss in a patch of nettles. When he reached over and gently took hold of the blob, it twisted viciously in a very unfroglike manner and bit him on the hand. "I was shocked," he says. "Frogs don't normally bite you. There's only one other frog in P.N.G. that does that." The animal's bite, coupled with its unique cry and strange appearance, told Richards he had snared a place in the zoological textbooks with the discovery...
...Baghdad's fortified Green Zone. The eight men were tried for an incident that, until the trial began, most Iraqis had long forgotten. On July 8, 1982, at the height of the Iraq-Iran war, Saddam's motorcade was attacked by gunmen in the village of Dujail, an hour's drive north of Baghdad. During the trial, Saddam recollected the attempted assassination, saying, "Bullets were in front of me and here and there. [But] God wanted to save...