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...were treated in restaurants, and whether they had encountered name-calling, harassment or threats. The subjects were asked to indicate the reasons they felt they had been discriminated against (facing police harassment, for example, or being denied bank loans), whether it was because of age, gender, race, height or weight, physical disability, sexual orientation or religion. Between the two survey periods, the rate of discrimination due to height or weight increased from 7% of respondents to 12% of respondents. (The scientists determined separately that the people who reported discrimination due to height or weight were also more likely than other...
...food. The Thai phrase "to eat" translates as "eat rice." "Rice isn't just another commodity," says Robert Zeigler, director general of the International Rice Research Institute in Manila. "In Asia, rice has cultural, social and, in many places, even a religious role, so it carries much more psychological weight." Indeed, Asian nations have reacted to the mere prospect of shortage with something close to hysteria. The Philippines government has threatened to charge rice hoarders with economic sabotage - a crime punishable by life imprisonment. In Manila last week, armed soldiers distributed cheap bags of rice from the backs of military...
...Oprah does not have the only Oprahesque reality show on TV today; more and more of them are overtly or covertly about mental makeovers. The Biggest Loser coaches weight loss. MTV's Made gives outcast kids self-confidence; the CW's Beauty and the Geek does the same for socially challenged nerds and academically challenged hotties. Supernanny gives tough love to out-of-control kids (and parents); A&E's Intervention, to addicts. On TLC's The Secret Life of a Soccer Mom, women who gave up careers to stay home go back to work for a week, then reconcile...
Thus the common thread on these shows: there are no external circumstances you cannot overcome by improving your internal attitude. On The Biggest Loser, weight loss is about positivity, not genes; on Big Give, your ability to better yourself is limited only by your willingness to help others; on Gunn's and Kressley's shows, your problem is not in your hips but in your head. We want the shows, like the Wizard of Oz, to tell us that we had courage, brains and heart inside us all along...
...emergence of a new term: science combined with a definite article—the Science. Science and the Science have quite distinct meanings. Science is a tool that investigates the natural world. The Science is a moral, political, and dogmatic force. For example, science tells us the weight of calcium and voltage of lightning; the Science tells us not to eat trans-fats, how often to get colonoscopies, and how many cups of coffee are safe for daily consumption. While science is like a cool older brother, the Science is like a nagging mother: “How much have...