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...have this cycle we've developed-work intensively, buy more, repeat," says Carolyn Danckaert, New American Dream's director of home and communities programs. "At a certain point, the accumulation of stuff starts to drive your life." As Juliet Schor, an economist at Boston College who helps run the group, points out in her book The Overworked American, when workers became more productive over the second half of the 20th century, we as a society chose to take the benefit as more stuff. We could have also decided to, say, work a little less...
...revelations come at a critical time. President Obama is due to reveal his new Afghanistan strategy in the next few days. If, as suspected, the U.S. deploys additional troops it's also likely to repeat calls for its allies to do likewise. But in Germany, where the Afghanistan mission is deeply unpopular, this incident and the alleged cover-up have raised fresh doubts about whether Germany should be there at all. Reflecting the mood, zu Guttenberg urged parliament to start "thinking the Afghanistan mission from its end," making the case for better-defined goals and an exit strategy. "There...
...Television brings that into my house: how to kill, how to cut off people's heads. It becomes a kind of education. Do you want to educate our young people in violence and sex? It's influencing young people into how to become criminals - young people like to repeat what they see in films. It's creating young people prone to violence, rape and criminality. It's not conservatism. It's saying: how do we deal with these things? It's saying: let's not keep quiet about these matters...
Cash-conscious shoppers are hoping to see a repeat of 2008's eye-popping discounts, when markdowns, even on high-end fashion duds, exceeded 75% in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Although retailers are insisting that they won't resort to jaw-dropping discounts this year, what happens will ultimately depend on how much and how quickly they get consumers to start spending. And it won't be easy. (See TIME's Holiday Gift Guide...
...relieved as McCullough released his ink stained hand. His village elder, a long gray-bearded man named Haji Assidullah - who had just signed the corollary "Reintegration Sponsor Agreement" - gave him a reassuring smile. A Marine took Khalik from the room and then walked outside to retrieve another detainee, to repeat the process...