Word: socialism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...like wherewejet.com, have popped up to chronicle JetBlue adventures, share itinerary ideas and find cheap places to sleep. Traveler Jennifer Milano has even organized a New York City meeting to organize group trips; she says 20 travelers have committed to attending. To its credit, JetBlue may have started a social-media movement...
...make the assumption that because it often makes social interactions go more smoothly, lying is O.K. But there is a cost to even seemingly benign lies. If people are always telling you that you look terrific and you did a great job on that presentation, there's no way to have an accurate understanding of yourself. Lies put a smudge on an interaction, and if it's easy to lie to people in minor ways, it becomes easier to lie in bigger ways...
...show how lying is a social skill. Does that mean it's part of an evolutionary legacy? I don't think lying is genetically programmed. We learn to lie. We teach our kids to be effective liars by modeling deceitful behavior...
This is why Obama and his budget director Peter Orszag are so eager to "bend the cost curve" for health care - if they don't, it's hard to see how we're going to be able to afford a military or interstate highways or a social safety net or any other government services. Compared to health costs, the Iraq war, the financial bailouts, the stimulus package and even the long-term Social Security shortfall are minuscule fiscal problems. (See a guide to understanding the health-care debate...
...Afghan President Hamid Karzai's more formidable opponents - yet he isn't a chieftain, a warlord or even a candidate in the Aug. 20 Afghanistan presidential election. Just 30 years old, Popal is a rare individual in the country: a community organizer who heads the Afghanistan Youth National and Social Organization (AYNSO), an NGO that, in a nation marked by division, transcends religion, ethnicity and tribe. AYNSO's broad objective is to promote democracy and human rights. But Popal's current objective is much more specific: mobilizing AYNSO's 32,000 members to unseat Karzai, who he believes has done...