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...findings suggest that despite the progress that has been made in addressing racism in the America, we may still be perpetuating prejudice in subtle ways - and, if Weisbuch's findings are validated, in ways that we may not even realize. "Human beings are thinking, cognizant, conscious beings who can be strategic and intentional," says John Dovidio, a professor of psychology at Yale University who wrote an editorial accompanying Weisbuch's study, published Thursday in Science. "But we are also kind of emotional and we do a lot of things without full conscious awareness. What this research suggests is that although...
Declining to sit down with TIME in Google's office in Menlo Park, Calif., the Google guys are making applications that will one day turn the human race into a bunch of fat idiots, subservient to robots, while they take all our money. (I am seriously mad at them for not talking to me.) (See the 50 best websites...
...Some people are uncomfortable of the gatherings of people there,” says Fred Berman, a planner for the Cambridge Department of Human Services...
...want those and newly arrived illegals to join the estimated 300 Jungle inhabitants still in town. The reason is evident: with its proximity to Britain - 30 miles, connected by ferries, trucks, cars and passenger and freight trains using the Chunnel - Calais remains a magnet for clandestine aliens and the human traffickers exploiting their desire to reach the U.K. (where obtaining refugee status is easier and brings more in aid payments). Britain has long demanded that Paris take action to prevent migrants from congregating on French shores with the aim of illegally sneaking across the Channel. (See the top 10 news...
...hiding from even the aid groups looking to provide them minimal levels of assistance. "We aren't condoning illegal immigration and aren't naive about the role of traffickers in all this," he says. "But offering a little humanitarian care to such vulnerable people is our duty as fellow human beings and Christians." (See the TIME video "In Calais, a Dead End for Refugees Bound for Britain...