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...there is no evidence that lowering the drinking age will result in healthier or safer drinking habits among young people, according to Harvard’s current Director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services, Ryan Travia...
...gender ratios may have other, less heralded implications, however. Some of our own work has suggested that this shift may actually shorten men’s lives, reversing some of the historic progress our species has made in recent centuries. Across a range of species, skewed sex ratios result in intensified competition for sexual partners and this induces stress for the supernumerary sex. In humans, it seems, a 5 percent excess of males at the time of sexual maturity shortens the survival of men by about three months in late life, which is a very substantial loss...
...world receive 57 percent of the income. Income inequality in the US is presently at its highest recorded levels, exceeding even the Roaring Twenties. And while economic development in China has proceeded with astonishing rapidity, income is not evenly distributed; the prospects for conflict in that country as a result seem very high in the coming decades. These forces may increase the propensity to violence and mental illness, and perhaps even poor physical health, judging from a string of intriguing studies of the impact of income inequality on health...
...learn from criticism, and second they do not learn how to support and modify their positions. When criticism is encountered in outside contexts, it is either rejected or shied away from. Further, there is a sort of “perfection complex” that develops as a result...
...what case Coleman could make that he hasn't already put forward, so it would risk looking like a quest for delay instead of a search for fairness," Kettl says. "He has little to gain in a suit with few chances of success and little but criticism as a result...