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...think so. Not to say that men don't have conflicts. A really great exercise that I learned from a colleague is to ask girls to sit the way a typical guy sits and then ask girls to sit the way a typical girl sits. And you will see two completely different postures. Guys have way more permission to take up space in every sense of that phrase. There just aren't the same rules as there are for women, and that's going to lead to a different consciousness and a different set of concerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Being a Good Girl Is Bad | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

When it comes to achievement, there's obviously enormous pressure there, but I would say the same pressure applies to boys. I think the biggest difference in an Asian family is going to be the expectation that a female be deferential to men and really repress the expression of negative feelings. The very first countries to translate Odd Girl Out were all Asian. I think that there is a huge, huge indirect aggression problem in Asia. It has to do with the Asian culture's very inflexible expectations of women and girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Being a Good Girl Is Bad | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...held for eight years in a windowless cellar by her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil. She ran away in August 2006. Yet upon learning that he had thrown himself in front of a train a few hours after she escaped, she reportedly burst into tears. "All I can say is that, bit by bit, I feel more sorry for him," Kampusch said in a 2007 documentary intended to mark her first year of freedom, calling Priklopil a "poor soul - lost and misguided." (Experts note that because they are especially vulnerable and impressionable, children may be particularly prone to forming bonds with their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stockholm Syndrome | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...Russia's official explanation of what happened will probably become the final one - this was a hijacking thwarted by its navy without a shot being fired. But there are baffling details left unexplained, leading some experts to claim that the truth is much more sinister: the Arctic Sea, they say, was intercepted by Israel as it carried a secret cargo of weapons to the Middle East. (See pictures of dramatic pirate-hostage rescues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Russia's 'Hijacked' Ship Carrying Missiles to the Mideast? | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...capital of Taliban might - appears increasingly under the sway of the insurgency. There are widespread reports of vote fraud in the Aug. 20 presidential election in which incumbent Hamid Karzai claims to be leading. What's more, military and foreign-policy experts - some of whom have been advising McChrystal - say both the U.S. military and civilian presence is inadequate. (See pictures of the new offensive in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Point Looms for the U.S. in Afghanistan | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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