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People are getting really into food. There are all these gastronomical blogs out there and people are watching the Food Network constantly. What is going on? I think it's one of the most pronounced cultural trends of recent years. People are interested in food and they want to approach it with discernment. There are probably more reality shows that deal with cooking than deal with fashion. I know 17- and 18-year-olds who watch Top Chef and while they're responding in part to the competition, there's all this discussion of ingredients and what goes together with...
Kevin Conway, product manager for insider and ownership data at Thomson Reuters, agrees the abnormally high number of insider stock sales in recent weeks indicates change, but says it may not be cause for alarm. Insiders, he says, could simply be selling to lock in gains that will lessen their realized losses from the past two years...
...maximize its effectiveness, a national bill on cellphone use in cars should be enacted quickly. While text messaging has been around for a decade, its recent proliferation means that etiquette is still changing and attitudes toward acceptable behavior are still receptive to molding. Americans need to get the message immediately that texting while driving is seriously unsafe, lest the notion that one must text back immediately, no matter the activity, become a permanent part of our culture...
...recent days, there has been growing speculation that schools and universities will not open their doors for the fall semester out of concern that students will extend the allegedly Western-inspired protest movement to Iran's many campuses. The reality is that the Islamic Republic has no one to blame but itself. There is a quote by the late Ayatullah Khomeini that greets kids at the beginning of each elementary school textbook: "Omid e man ba shoma dabistani hast" (My hope lies with you). Iran's latest social upheaval is not yet a revolution. If it does become...
Commercial sexual exploitation of children is booming, and governments are not doing enough to protect young people, according to a global report released by ECPAT International in August 2009. "The recent economic downturn is set to drive more vulnerable children and young people to be exploited by the global sex trade," says Carmen Madrinan, executive director of ECPAT International. "The indifference that sustains the criminality, greed and perverse demands of adults for sex with children and young people needs...