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Some of that activity was rooted in France's leftist-driven insurrectional tradition, which snakes from the Revolution through the Paris Commune, into the Resistance and beyond May 1968. By the suburban riots of 2005, however, the ethnically diverse, economically disenfranchised project youths behind that violence had adapted France's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the French Love to Strike | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

"The French people and their political culture love history and all commemoration of it - to the extent that France often looks to its past as much as it does to its future in responding to its present," says Guy Groux, a specialist in French social and labor conflict for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the French Love to Strike | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

In light of our society’s pervasive equation of meat-eating with masculine dominance, such minglings of the anti-meat agenda with misogyny assume added complexity. The ostensible absurdity of a vegetarian weight-lifter exposes a deep-rooted cultural fiction: that men gain strength and virility through eating...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Veganism as Sexism? | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

Infants who see rapid growth in the first six months of life may be at a significantly higher risk for obesity later on, according to a Harvard study published in the April issue of Pediatrics. These results imply that obesity can be rooted in the very early stages of life...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baby Fat Linked to Obesity | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

After Caray's death in 1998, the Cubs began inviting special guests to lead Cubs fans in an often excruciating attempt to carry on his legacy. Among the tune's most recent mutilators are racing star Danica Patrick, a northern Illinois native who rooted for the home team in 2006...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game' | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

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