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...much intellectual ability a person starts out with, a mentally demanding job can keep his brain healthy well into retirement. In fact, the gains for people who have high IQs are relatively small, leading Potter to speculate that having a complex job, "may make up for a lack of advantage early in life, whether they be socioeconomic or otherwise." he says. So depending on what you do for a living, that daily grind may actually be the ultimate brain booster...
...inconvenience and lack of transparency have soured many who had bought into the China miracle. "As we are not allowed into China, why should we put our money there,? writes Weckherlin on his blog. He insists he remains "for China," but some irate bloggers on his site have posted lengthy commentaries on the merits of quitting China for other emerging economies like Vietnam...
...Wounds caused by damaged credibility, of course, are also hard to heal. "The problem with credibility," says Pew's Keeter, "Is that people think of it as a fundamental character trait. Some measure of lack of honesty is damaging because it leads to a broader generalization...
...scientific community that global warming inaction will result in reduced polar bear numbers, but admits that the data isn't entirely conclusive. "The problem comes when people start asking if we know everything we need to know about polar bears everywhere," he says. "The answer is, no. But a lack of scientific certainty hasn't been taken by the majority of polar ecologists as a reason to assume everything...
...young and I’d already seen people burned and beaten, their nails pulled out, their women raped, their limbs chopped off,” Delle said. “I saw the brutal effects of the lack of respect for human rights. And that made me forever realize that, whatever I do, I had to be of service to my country...