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...financial matriarch has carefully tracked recessions, studied boom-and-bust trends and spent her life - all 93 years - mastering the intricacies of the monetary system and banking world. She's worked as an economist with the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1941 and now serves as an adjunct professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She recently spoke with TIME contributing editor Janet Morrissey. (See pictures of the stock-market crash...
...wheat grass and tofu, Southerners don't really sit around eating fried chicken every day. "I've not come across anything that says the diet in the Southeast is worse than the rest of the country," says David Bassett, co-director of the University of Tennessee's Obesity Research Center. "We're definitely in what I like to call the 'Stroke Belt,' " he says, referring to Southeastern states' high percentage of heart disease and hypertension, "but I think that has more to do with Southerners' lack of physical activity rather than the food." (Read "A Brief History of Barbecue...
Adding to the deep body of research associating mental acuity with a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease, a study published online on July 8 by the journal Neurology suggests that people who possess sophisticated linguistic skills early in life may be protected from developing dementia in old age - even when their brains show the physical signs, like lesions and plaques, of memory disorders...
...According to the Dutch Institute for Social Sexual Research, 1,500 girls under 18 are working in these places. I don’t want to state the obvious or oversimplify the situation, but something is seriously wrong in The Netherlands—a welfare state—if impoverished minors are incentivized to become sex workers...
...regulated Dutch sex industry—prostitution was legalized nearly nine years ago in this country, in October 2000—sex workers have to be at least 18 years of age in order to legally work in brothels and behind windows. Through the course of my research on the situation over the past two weeks, I discovered intense opposition among a slew of Dutch academics, women’s rights advocates, and former prostitutes to a recent proposal to increase the age standard for sex workers from...