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...including the U.S.. When asked whether health, social and environmental status should figure into measures of national progress as much as economic data, between 70% (Russia) and 86% (France) agreed. "It's common sense and matches their experience," says Hazel Henderson, whose firm commissioned the study. "People know there is much valuable in their lives besides what can be expressed in monetary terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is GDP An Obsolete Measure of Progress? | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

...convince you that they work twice as hard for half the grade? Well, apparently, the school’s grade deflation policy—which has long served as a mark of unique academic intensity among Princetonians, not to mention a chief source of that smugness we all know and love—isn’t working quite as well as everyone had hoped. In fact, it seems like it’s taken Princeton students six years to realize that their special grading policy translates into lower GPAs. Who would have thought...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Around the Ivies Plus | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

...requires courage to speak, I know," said Wafula. "Everybody keeps asking me about my security, but I say only God protects me. There must be someone to speak on behalf of those who are voiceless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya's Whistleblowers Face Growing Intimidation | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

...Without a credible legal system and without honest police and without a judiciary that you can trust, how can you do such a program? That's what we don't really know," a Western diplomat involved in the discussions told TIME, speaking on condition of anonymity. "The police don't have credibility in this, and until there are real reforms undertaken in the police sector, that's not going to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya's Whistleblowers Face Growing Intimidation | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

...What we now know is that he retained absolutely the intent and the intellectual know-how to restart a nuclear and a chemical-weapons program when the inspectors were out and the sanctions changed, which they were going to do," he continued. "Now, I think that it is at least arguable that he was a threat, that had we taken that decision to leave him there, with an oil price not $25 but $100 a bbl., he would have had the intent, he would have had the financial means, and we would have lost our nerve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unbowed on Iraq, Blair Argues for Targeting Iran | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

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