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...energy research, to fight global warming? Would you revamp America's border and port security, to fight terrorism? Would you sign Kobe Bryant, Paul Pierce and Tim Duncan for the Philadelphia 76ers? (My personal choice.) Most of us might would make such a decision based on emotions - witnessing the pain of hunger, or experiencing the fear of nuclear terorrism. But what if there were a way to calculate the exact value of global priorities, a way to figure out just how much human suffering we could alleviate per dollar spent...
...condones illegal immigration. Your Postcard writer refers repeatedly to "immigrants" without seeing the need to attach the adjective "illegal." The term "criminals" is presented as something only "angry residents" call these people, who have broken U.S. immigration and identity-fraud laws. While no American should take joy in the pain resulting from crackdowns on illegal immigration, the illegals accepted the risks of being caught when they entered the country. Before the law can be reviewed or changed, it needs to be enforced. I can respect people who suggest changes to our immigration laws, even if I disagree with their proposals...
...black kids than in white kids; another sees the problem as being worse for Hispanic children. One study finds significantly higher rates of depression in overweight girls; another finds overweight boys taking a huge self-esteem hit when teased by their peers. No matter who feels the most pain, however, they're all getting hurt...
What parents, who suffer all this pain by proxy, must realize is that they are never going to change the hard realities of schoolyard taunts and a thin-obsessed culture. What they must do instead is teach their kids to value those things less--and value other things more. Kelly Lowry, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of child and adolescent psychiatry at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, says the key lies in accentuating the positive. "Parents need to emphasize health behaviors, not the numbers on a scale," she says...
...appear to behave with drag-and-drop fluidity. You'd think they were desktop apps. So who knows, maybe people will be upsold to the $99-a-year service. And if they do? Chances are they'll re-up every year, since switching is such a pain. (Although after running it by my wife, I'm more skeptical about this one. Apple definitely has the lead, but how long before Google's free services catch...