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...himself. In the important and captivating “The Lucifer Effect,” Zimbardo attempts to answer this question and explore its many disturbing implications. Any attentive psychology student can tell you what happened with the experiment: The situation got ugly very quickly. During the Thursday night-shift after the initial Sunday faux-arrests, the prison guards began forcing the male prisoners to engage in simulated sodomy. “Now you two, you’re male camels. Stand behind the female camels and hump them,” ordered one of the guards, in Zimbardo?...
...with an assortment of Green Zone archetypes: broad-shouldered security contractors walk in with dates in tight tops and high heels; a handful of diplomats mingle in blazers; a construction worker wearing a fishing vest that reads BAGHDADDY meets his friends at the end of a 12-hour shift. The guards at the gate require that patrons surrender their guns, ammunition, grenades and flash bangs before entering. You get your weapons back at the end of the night...
...table in the bar, Manikas is describing his daily routine. He wakes up at 4 a.m. in the company's villa down the street, has coffee, eats breakfast and is on a bus at 6, headed for the new embassy. After his shift he comes back, and if there has been a big bombing in Baghdad that day, he calls home. "Every time the media shows something on TV," he says, "I have to call my wife and say it wasn't near me." He feels safe in the Green Zone. "It is written in my karma where...
...them ten years later, the guy’s making a gazillion and the woman is in a small practice making maybe 60 percent as much,” Goldin says.“Why is that the case? Most likely, she made a conscious decision to shift into a smaller practice that didn’t have 80-hour work weeks to combine family with career and to do it in a way that was satisfying. Now, why not her husband?”Questions such as these have long fascinated Goldin as she has studied the factors leading...
...Though he's never been a vocal green, Abe seems to have seized on global warming as way for Japan to express its power in a soft way, moving the focus to the future rather than the country's controversial past. There is "a mind shift that it is politically wise to take the leadership on environmental issues," says Hye Sook Park, a professor of environmental geography at Japan's Mie University...