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...implications for national policy should be drawn out: If the government could not protect the Pentagon with roughly an hour’s notice, maybe we should not let it abrogate the rule of law in the name of rapid and effective national defense. If our hair-trigger responses could not stop the hijackers, maybe we should slow things down and focus on wisdom rather than speed. We now know that decisions made rashly in the aftermath of 9/11 (spying on citizens, torturing suspects, detaining without trial men of unproven guilt) were of dubious effectiveness. Just as significantly, no obvious...
...address the variable that has partly been holding poverty at bay the past few decades: women in the workforce. Policies designed to make it easier for a person to have a job while rearing a child - flexible work schedules, on-site day care - could be a way to let unmarried individuals recapture some of the advantage of marriage. The issue is hardly fringe: last year, some 40% of children were born outside of marriage. "We have to build a system where people can be both good workers and good parents," says Cancian...
...avoid a face full of bacteria each morning (Pace's team identified more than a dozen microbes other than M. avium in the showers they tested), let the shower run for a while before getting in. And remember to keep one eye open for zombies...
...imperfections in the numbers reported by schools to the Department of Education. Some schools reportedly "game the system"—downplaying their crime rate for fear of bad reputation, while other schools remain "steadfastly honest." Congress is soon expected to make the Clery Act's guidelines more stringent. Let's all hope that once that's done, Harvard may strip itself the honor of being on this list. If not, the only solution that remain may be just to relocate. New Hampshire anyone...
...that appeared in the Australian, a former neighbor confirmed this attitude had stayed with the victim throughout her life, and that her father had always been a domineering force. "When I said to her, 'Do you want to go to the bingo?', [she said] 'Oh no, Dad won't let me'. I thought, 'Dad won't let you?' And you're in your 30s? It didn't make sense...