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Krueger notes that the type of pain people reported typically fell on either side of the rich-poor divide. "Those with higher incomes welcome pain almost by choice, usually through exercise," he says. "At lower incomes, pain comes as the result of work." Indeed, Krueger and Stone found that blue-collar workers felt more pain, from physical labor or repetitive motion, while on the job than off, which at least offers hope that the problem can be mitigated. This finding "emphasizes the need for pain preventing measures [in the workplace] such as better ergonomics," wrote Juha H.O. Turunen, a professor...
...institutional mandate. It should be kept in mind that Harvard as an institution was not slaveholding, but that individuals connected to Harvard were. Harvard should not force or even pay researchers to launch a University investigation, because this is not an instance of institutional redress. Yet this type of investigation by students and their professors is laudable for its “bottom-up” approach. Beckert said, “We do have a responsibility to be examining our history completely. If there are parts that are less favorable, so be it.” He said that...
...American human youth.” Richard Sterling, who chaired the advisory board for College Board’s National Commission on Writing, believes that the fact that students are using informal language in school is “good news.” When students use this type of language in their academic writing, it opens a dialogue between students and teachers, said Sterling, who is a professor of education at the University of California at Berkeley. “It’s helping them to understand when certain language is appropriate.” Sterling said that...
...inadvertently turned them into celebrities, he says. "The result is two negatives: they're seen as by some as bad parents, and they're famous for being bad parents. So, there's been a license to trash them. And it's cruel." In the documentary, the couple reveal the type of hate mail they've received. One writer called them "scum" and said their "drunken arrogance" was to blame for their missing "brat...
...technique as valuable,” DeBergalis says. “I’m not sure that they want to empower people in quite the same way.” Not that DeBergalis is complacent: he says that Democrats “have to keep investing in this type of innovation, or Republicans will catch up and find a way to use the Internet for their own nefarious ends...