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...Middle East, Israelis and Palestinians implicitly understand that a solution to their interminable feud requires a framework in which both sides feel secure, yet they remain deadlocked. Similarly, in Sri Lanka, newspaper polls suggest that Tamils as well as Sinhalese grudgingly accept the need for political compromise. The years of fighting, however, have left people bitter and angry and all too ready to seek revenge in a terrible cycle of violence. "There are those who are very war crazy," says Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, executive director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives, a think tank. "And the rest often go along...
...fathers wanted to balance home and career, 23% had little or no time to spend with their children on weekdays. Some are even reluctant to take time off for the birth of their kids. In South Korea, civil servants are permitted three days' paternity leave, but the figures suggest that men either don't want it or feel pressured not to take it. In 2005, just 208 fathers in the civil service used their entitlement, compared with 10,492 women who took maternity leave...
...egregiously, they exaggerate women's financial foibles at a time when we are making more money than ever before. While still not on a par with men's, women's salaries were 77% of men's in 2005, compared with 65% in 1985. These financial frenemies go on to suggest that our misguided habits are the root of this overblown "problem," discounting the economic forces that deflate women's earnings in the first place--things like unpaid family leave and wage stagnation for women-dominated occupations like home health aides and teachers. As Tamara Draut, author of Strapped: Why America...
...talking about social organizations in this area) exist, such as the 300-plus member student group Harvard University Women in Business (HUWIB). Though groups like HUWIB are not explicitly anti-male, the fact that they are essentially gender exclusive and the nature of their mission statements suggest an underlying negativity against the other sex. The group purports to aim to enable women to be more able participants of the global marketplace, but I fail to see how alignments on the basis of gender improve members of the marketplace. HUWIB is not only sexist, it’s idiotic. Let?...
...just endangered species that Andreano and Miller claim to be worried about. They are seeking a national ban on lead ammo because they believe - and some scientific studies suggest as well - that it also may be poisoning people, especially children, who eat hunted meats. Says Andreano, "There is such a problem with minute fragments of lead making their way onto the hunters' dinner table that we feel, ultimately, this is a human health and safety issue...