The Hell of American Day Care. Before 2014, catch up on the best of 2013.
North Korea’s Conventional Forces visualized. With the world staring down the barrel of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal, intercontinental missiles, and biological and chemical weapons, sane people might be wondering why no one has started bombing them yet?
The answer is simple. The repercussions would be disastrous. While North Korean arms are mostly antiquated, much of it dating back half a century, what they lack in modernity they make up for in both volume and location. Rich Johnson on Twitter at @newsillustrator. The Meaning of White. From student to spy, and back again. BAKERSFIELD — Fernando Jara is something of a star in Kern County — and a mystery.
From humble beginnings, Jara founded a program to rehabilitate drug addicts and felons on a five-acre farm. He is completing a master's degree at Claremont School of Theology and will soon begin work on a doctorate and a law degree. The energetic 37-year-old and his wife, a Kern County supervisor and rising political star, attended President Obama's inauguration in January at the invitation of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Chris Kluwe takes a stand - - News - Minneapolis. Walking across the Macalester College campus, Chris Kluwe passes unnoticed.
As usual, the 30-year-old Vikings punter is dressed down: a pair of brown flip-flops, black basketball shorts, and a baggy zip-up sweatshirt. A backward World of Warcraft hat pins back his shaggy brown surfer haircut, a giveaway to the Southern California boy's roots on this cool autumn afternoon in Minnesota. Kluwe climbs a staircase to the second floor of a glass building, where an LGBT group called "No H8" — an offshoot of the campaign against California's Proposition 8 — holds a promotional photo shoot. The One-Legged Wrestler Who Conquered His Sport, Then Left It Behind. Lost in the Meritocracy - Walter Kirn. On the bus ride down to St.
Paul to take the test that will help determine who will get ahead in life, who will stay put, and who will fall behind, two of my closest buddies seal their fates by opening pint bottles of cherry schnapps the moment we leave the high school parking lot. They hide the liquor under their varsity jackets and monitor the driver's rearview mirror for opportune moments to duck their heads and swig. A girl sees what they're up to, mutters, "Morons," and goes back to shading in the tiny ovals in her Scholastic Aptitude Test review book. She dated one of the guys a few months back, but lately she's grown serious, ambitious; I've heard that she hopes to practice law someday and prosecute companies that pollute the air. Nothing Grows Forever. In essence, endless growth puts us on the horns of a seemingly intractable dilemma.
Without it, we spiral into poverty. With it, we deplete the planet. 25 Places That Look Not Normal, But Are Actually Real. A Sin City Savior's Quest To Cure The Common Hangover. Venom: The Bite That Heals. By Jennifer S.
Holland Michael decided to go for a swim. He was on vacation with his family in Guerrero, Mexico, and it was hotter than blazes. He grabbed his swimming trunks from where they’d been drying on a chair, slid them on, and jumped into the pool. Instead of cool relief, a burning pain ripped through the back of his thigh. Gérard de Villiers, the Spy Novelist Who Knows Too Much. The Jerusalem Syndrome: Why Some Religious Tourists Believe They Are the Messiah. Photo: Ziv Koren Shortly after his 40th birthday, the life of a man we’ll call Ronald Hodge took a strange turn.
He still looked pretty good for his age. He had a well-paying job and a devoted wife. Or so he thought. Then, one morning, Hodge’s wife told him she no longer loved him. Dart Society Reports » The Gray Box: An investigative look at solitary confinement. The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Back in 1958, Ted Schwarzrock was an 8-year-old third grader when he became one of the “Torrance kids,” a group of nearly 400 Minneapolis children who completed a series of creativity tasks newly designed by professor E.
Paul Torrance. Schwarzrock still vividly remembers the moment when a psychologist handed him a fire truck and asked, “How could you improve this toy to make it better and more fun to play with?” He recalls the psychologist being excited by his answers. In fact, the psychologist’s session notes indicate Schwarzrock rattled off 25 improvements, such as adding a removable ladder and springs to the wheels. That wasn’t the only time he impressed the scholars, who judged Schwarzrock to have “unusual visual perspective” and “an ability to synthesize diverse elements into meaningful products.” Famous Quotes From Lee Kuan Yew - The Unofficial Singapore Website.
Lee Kuan Yew is the founding father of Modern Singapore and the ex-Prime Minister.
Lee Kuan Yew has officially stepped down from the cabinet after the watershed 2011 General Election. While MM Lee has been visionary and well respected during his reign as prime minister of Singapore, he seems to have lost that midas touch since he stepped down from his PM post more than 20 years ago as judged from the many controversial statements that he has made during these years, which have captured here in this page. “LKY was a very good leader in his first 20 years of rule, assisted by fine and committed good men like Toh Chin Chye, GKS and Rajatranam. Having said that, since the stepping down of these fine men, LKY has been courting many controversies …… His last 20 years “achievements” are highly questionable without those early PAP fine men by his side.” – Ang Sar Lee.
Pastor Khong: I Only Want to Be Able to Live My Life. Dear Pastor Khong, I had chanced upon your latest status update and was pleasantly surprised when you had said that, “To anyone out there with homosexual orientations, I want to say: God loves you. The Bible (God’s Word) unequivocally calls me and my fellow Christians to love you unconditionally.” However, you continued to say that, “While we reject sin, we love and accept the sinner.” Though you showed honesty in saying how according to the Bible, “sexual sins, therefore, include heterosexual promiscuity, homosexuality, polygamy, paedophilia, beastiality and necrophilia,” and that you agreed that, “In God’s view, I suspect we are all sexual deviants.” French elections 2012: how Nicolas Sarkozy got it wrong.
Graffiti outside a French courthouse reads 'Sarkozy get out! ' Photograph: CHESNOT/SIPA/EPA The writing was on the wall for Nicolas Sarkozy as early as March when pelted eggs slid down the windows of the Palais bar in the Basque town of Bayonne as he waited inside, calling in riot police to rescue him and ensure his safe exit. On the narrow street outside the bar, crowds, including Basque militants, were shouting "Sarkozy out! " and "Sod off Sarko". What If We Responded to Sexual Assault by Limiting Men’s Freedom Like We Limit Women’s? Calls for Men to Be Blindfolded in Public In response to claims that men are unable to restrain themselves from committing rape if they see women in skimpy clothing, members of law enforcement agencies around the country have called for men to blindfold themselves when they are in places where they might encounter a female wearing a tank top or a short skirt.
“For years, we have been told that men don’t understand how to respond to the sight of a woman wearing, say, gym clothes – that as far as they are concerned, if they can see the outline of her body, then that’s an invitation to sex that they are simply unable to refuse,” said one police chief. “If that’s true, then we have no choice. We want women to be safe, and there is apparently no way for some men to reasonably restrain their own behavior once they catch a glimpse of cleavage, so all men will have to cover their eyes while working out, going to bars or clubs, or relaxing at the beach.” Voices from the blogosphere agree. Trickle-Down Feminism. Trickle-Down Feminism Artwork by Imp Kerr If you read what is popularly known as the feminist press, you’ll notice a focus on the “glass ceiling” that excludes much else. Feminist writers are found celebrating the achievements of Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg, cheering Christine Lagarde’s position at the International Monetary Fund, wringing their hands over Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s refusal to call herself a feminist, or asking, as Anne-Marie Slaughter did in the pages of the Atlantic, whether (white, well-off, educated) women can “have it all.”
While we debate the travails of some of the world’s most privileged women, most women are up against the wall. According to the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, women make up just under half of the national workforce, but about 60 percent of the minimum-wage workforce and 73 percent of tipped workers. Is PTSD Contagious? The Only Thing You Need to Read About Guns in America. France and the veil – the dark side of the law. Storytellers. To My Someday Daughter. Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior. Rape Prevention Aimed At Rapists Does Work: The “Don’t Be That Guy” Campaign. After Years in Solitary, an Austere Life as Uruguay’s President. If I Went To The Delhi Cops Every Time I Was Sexually Harassed, I’d Have No Time For Anything Else. Adam Green: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins, Pickpocket. The Children Who Went Up In Smoke. Are Babies Born Good? Atheist parents comfort children about death without talk of God or heaven. Customer Reviews: Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer.
A Science Guy's Place in the Sun. How Two Presidents Helped Me Deal With Love, Guilt, and Fatherhood. As the most powerful man on Earth prepared to pose for a picture, my son launched into a one-sided conversation, firing off one choppy phrase after another with machine-gun delivery. Meet Princess Marty, The Party Princess [VIDEO]
The family that's had blue skin since the 1800s.