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...Lowdown: The phenomenon Ritchin explains - the democratization and manipulation of photography via digital cameras and computers - is compelling. It's true that flat photographs in newspapers and magazines used to be the tools with which we viewed the world around us. As each day passes, our view gets richer and more sophisticated thanks to digital technologies. Ritchin, a photography professor at New York University, does not see digitization as demonization; he does not think that the risks of photographic deception made possible by computers outweigh the infinite possibilities new technologies open up. His message is modern. After Photography, however...
...information (like sex education) is nothing new, we now know how high the real costs of inaction are. When teenage girls were told in a randomized experiment in Kenya that older men are more likely to be HIV-positive than boys, they made better choices and tried to avoid richer but more dangerous partners...
...with children under 5 at the greatest risk. Keeping kids close to home is no guarantee of safety, since in or around the house is where most drownings take place. In lower-income countries, the greatest danger is in open bodies of water or in water-collection systems. In richer countries, swimming pools and the ocean are the most dangerous. Using flotation devices, providing effective resuscitation, fencing swimming pools and removing or covering water hazards are all recommended...
...current model of endowment development, which is highly dependent on alumni-giving, further widens the gap between richer and poorer institutions, because wealthy universities tend to engender wealthier alumni who can give a bigger pay-back. As non-profits, universities are unbridled forces on the stock market. With no obligation to plow resources back into federal and local services, or even to spend a fixed percentage of earnings, these universities vacuum up philanthropic impulses without creating widespread good...
...Until three years ago, the UAW's bargaining strategy was driven by a "no-concession" policy, though it did limit wage demands in exchange for richer pension and health-care benefits. Over the last three years, however, the union has reluctantly rewritten contracts with Ford, General Motors and Chrysler LLC, often over the strong objections of many union members...