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...French European Affairs Minister Pierre Lellouche, whose strong pro-American positions had long made him something of a rarity in France, was also fuming. "It's absolutely incompatible with the rules and laws," he declared. "But we're going to react. There will be consequences." And what might those be? For one thing, government spokesman Luc Chatel said Wednesday that French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was also reportedly furious about the turn of events, will raise the issue with President Barack Obama during his visit to the U.S. at the end of March...
...more educated, more diverse, more optimistic and less likely to have a job than previous generations. But it is in their use of technology that millennials see the greatest difference, starting perhaps with the fact that 83% of them sleep with their cell phones. Change now comes so strong and fast that it pulls apart even those who wish to hang together--and the future belongs to the strong of thumb...
...trend of more single women having children is bad for society. While more tolerant than older generations, they are still more likely to disapprove of than support the trend of unmarried couples living together. While they're more politically progressive than their elders, you could argue that their strong support for gay marriage and interracial marriage reflects their desire to extend traditional institutions as widely as possible. If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share...
While the desire for darker skin is very different from that for lighter skin, which has deep roots in colonization and slavery, they are both issues with little publicized, problematic health consequences. Many skin-lightening creams contain the chemical hydroquinone, which can lead to cancer, the strong steroid clobetasol propionate, and the poisons mercury and arsenic. Tanning is no better. Even indoor tanning lamps (UV radiation) cause melanoma and squamous cell cancer, not to mention the psychological turmoil of striving for the imagined “ideal” skin color...
...surprise us that the association between moderate alcohol consumption and risk of developing obesity was so strong,” said JoAnn E. Manson ’75, a Medical School and School of Public Health professor and one of the study’s authors...