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Americans' Eating Habits Take a Healthier Turn, Study Finds
Years of warnings by health officials and grim news on the bathroom scale appear to finally be having an impact on the nation's eating habits. While there is no sign the high level of obesity has fallen, Americans say they are consuming fewer calories and cutting back on fast food, cholesterol and fat.
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The Great Mom & Dad Experiment
The federal government has spent nearly a billion dollars to help poor couples stay together—with almost nothing to show for it. So why not pull the plug?
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Happiness and Its Discontents
As a critical theorist working at the intersection of Continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and feminist and queer theory, I make observations about human life that are speculative rather than empirical. That may explain why my definition of character pertains to what is least tangible, least intelligible about our being, including the inchoate frequencies of desire that sometimes cause us to behave in ways that work against our rational understanding of how our lives are supposed to turn out.
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Richard Sherman: The New, True All-American
Why has Sherman's infamous post-game interview stirred up so much discomfort? Easy: The nation sees itself in him.
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5 Ways Life in Iran Is Nothing Like You Think
If you go by the depictions in the news and movies, Iran is exclusively made up of experimental nuclear weapons, angry bearded mobs, and silent, oppressed females. And while the country may indeed have its fair share of all three of those, the reality is a far cry from what you'd expect. I spent almost a year in Iran, and I was amazed to discover ...
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Percentage of Americans Wanting Looser Gun Laws Triples in 2014
Fifty-five percent of Americans reported in a new Gallup poll that they are dissatisfied overall with American gun laws and policies, an increase from 51 percent in 2013 and just 42 percent in 2012. But the most dramatic rise in dissatisfaction comes from the contingency of Americans who feel gun laws are too strict, rather than from those who think they aren't strict enough. This percentage jumped to 16 percent this year, a rate that more than triples the 5 percent recorded by Gallup last year.
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Detroit bankruptcy blueprint would gut pensions
Details about a 99-page plan of adjustment for restructuring Detroit’s finances began emerging late this week. The plan, drawn up by Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, will establish a union-controlled retiree “health care trust,” lease the water department to a regional authority and impose deep reductions in pensions, according to the Detroit Free Press, which obtained the document
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‘Welcome to the United States of paranoia’
Between the NSA’s power and the IRS’s revenge, how can Americans not be worried about the opinions they express?
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Mexico’s Vigilantes on the March
In the past, Mexico’s revolutions and internal wars have all been eruptions stemming from deep social problems. They unleashed enormous destructive power and took decades to run their course. But they were always followed by long periods of peace and economic development.
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The slow decline of American Chinatowns
Chinatowns are a feature of many US cities, but some of the best known are succumbing to gentrification, campaigners say. Even one of the largest and most vibrant, in Manhattan, is slowly being invaded by luxury shops and apartment buildings.
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Police chief calls for rape cases rethink after woman's death
A woman has killed herself days after a man was cleared of raping her, prompting Greater Manchester's police chief and his crime commissioner to call for "root and branch" changes to the way vulnerable witnesses are dealt with in court.
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Why Russians Aren't Smiling at You in Sochi
The first rule about smiling at Russians is you do not smile at Russians.
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A crash course in growth economics
The mantra of most modern CEOs is to deliver maximum return to shareholders. Most gains go to the financial elite, while average Americans face frozen wages, cuts in benefits or jobs shipped overseas.
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Mississippi Most Religious State, Vermont Least Religious
Mississippi held on to its position as the most religious state in the union in 2013, while Vermont remained the least religious. Overall, Americans' average religiosity has been generally stable since 2008.
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Smoking and stigma: The War on Smoking Has Gone Too Far
Let's Not Wage War on Smokers Quitting smoking is good. Stigmatizing smokers isn't.
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The Job-Killing Minimum Wage?
In the fight over increasing the minimum wage, Republicans—who oppose the boost to $10.10 an hour—have received an assist from the Congressional Budget Office. According to a report released this afternoon, a minimum wage increase of the kind proposed by Democrats would reduce employment by 500,000 jobs.
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Scientology’s Vanished Queen
After the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige disappeared from public view, in 2007, those who asked questions were stonewalled, or worse. Now interviews with former insiders provide a grim picture of Shelly Miscavige’s youth, marriage, and fall from grace—and an assessment of her fate.
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Most Economically Thriving U.S. Cities Have Greatest Income Inequality
The disparity between rich and poor Americans is most prominently on display in the nation’s urban powerhouses like New York, San Francisco, and other cities thriving economically. In contrast, income inequality is not as big a problem in cities with more modest economic outcomes, like Columbus, Ohio, and Wichita, Kansas. Essentially, cities said to be “vibrant” because of their total amount of income don’t do a very good job of sharing their wealth.
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Hospital records of all NHS patients sold to insurers
Hospital records of all NHS patients sold for insurance purposes days after controversial plans to extract patient data from GP files put on hold
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Bringing Men Back Into Families
More than half of babies of mothers under 30 are born out of wedlock. The divorce rate among those who do marry exceeds 40 percent, according to the 2012 State of Our Unions report. These statistics play out most often in the form of absent fathers—or the arrival and departure of serial father figures involved in romantic relationships with a child’s mother.
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