Word: life
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...tween girls a few years older, says Lyn Mikel Brown, an education professor at Colby College in Maine and co-author of the book Packaging Girlhood. The not-so-subtle pressures of this marketing can damage self-esteem and feed worries about body image and appearance later in life, the sisters say. They also link it to a celebrity-obsessed culture that undermines adult women by glorifying glamour figures like Paris Hilton while neglecting those women engaged in more serious pursuits. (See the worst business deals...
...fingerprinting kids in the UK to allow access to libraries - but still, its fingerprinting. The really terrifying thing I found is that I feel like we're normalizing our kids, both through these activities and things like iPhones and Facebook apps. We're normalized to living an utterly exposed life. But there's value in privacy - its a tremendously uplifting and strengthening feeling, to feel like you can withdraw. Not because you've got anything to hide; just because you want...
...Justice, Michael Sandel’s extremely popular class on everyday morality—that had already been offered free of charge on the course’s public website. While the Harvard section also prominently features podcasts from different Harvard Schools and videos dedicated to exploring life on campus, it clearly lags behind other universities’ sections...
...Harvard students, whether you’re down the street or across the world, the next time someone asks you about life in Cambridge, you might do well to simply direct your iPods to itunes.harvard.edu...
These weren't tree-hugging Greenpeace activists that Japan was fighting, either, but pragmatic officials trying to preserve an industry with the current life expectancy of Jesse James' next marriage. If you make money from fishing bluefin tuna, and bluefin tuna go extinct, you are out of business. It's really not complicated. The southern bluefin is in even worse shape than its Atlantic counterpart, and scientists still haven't figured out a way to effectively farm a fish that weighs more than an NFL lineman, is entirely carnivorous and takes 30 years to reach its maximum size. Of course...