Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
SYL KACAPYR, - Cornell University
Stephan: It has always been my view that as a social value we should support loving relationships in whatever form they may come, rather than getting hung up on the form, and whether any particular religious ceremony is involved. Partnership is a civil contract. If people wish to also involve a religious ceremony that should be their choice, whatever it is. But the key is the social support of loving relationships. As this report makes clear that is what works, as the research data shows.
The study was funded in part by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
ITHACA, N.Y. — When it comes to the well-being of married versus cohabitating Valentines, wedded couples experience few advantages in psychological well-being and social ties, according to a new study at Cornell University.
The study, ‘Reexamining the Case for Marriage: Union Formation and Changes in Well-being,
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
CHARLES DUHIGG and KEITH BRADSHER, - The New York Times
Stephan: This is the fundamental structural shift that is occurring in manufacturing. I don't see millions of American workers in dorms, so that means we must reinvent ourselves in some new way.
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.
But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the United States?
Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas.
Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.
Mr. Jobs’s reply was unambiguous. ‘Those jobs aren’t coming back,
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
, - Agence France-Presse (France)
Stephan: How did we get here? This is where hate, anger, and paranoia take you as a country. We going to prosecute a man who leaked that we were torturing people.
A former CIA official who publicly confirmed the waterboarding of top Al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah was charged Monday with leaking classified information to journalists, including the identities of two CIA officers.
John Kiriakou, who served with the CIA between 1990 and 2004, was charged with violating a law that makes it illegal to disclose the identity of a covert officer, leaking classified information and lying to a CIA publications review board, the department said.
He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on all charges.
‘Safeguarding classified information, including the identities of CIA officers involved in sensitive operations, is critical to keeping our intelligence officers safe and protecting our national security,
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
SHIRONA PATEL, - University of the Witwatersrand
Stephan: As you read this notice how sophisticated early humans were. If you do not objectify the environment, and work with natural processes, it proves you can achieve results. Early humans had brains as large as ours. They weren't stupid, and they weren't primitive. There are a lot of ways to be a human being, each emphasizing a particular aspect of the whole. We would be better for comprehending what these early humans knew.
An international team of archaeologists is reporting 77,000-year-old evidence for preserved plant bedding and the use of insect-repelling plants in a rock shelter in South Africa. This discovery is 50,000 years older than earlier reports of preserved bedding and provides a fascinating insight into the behavioural practices of early modern humans in southern Africa.
The team, led by Professor Lyn Wadley of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in collaboration with Christopher Miller (University of Tübingen, Germany), Christine Sievers and Marion Bamford (University of the Witwatersrand), and Paul Goldberg and Francesco Berna (Boston University, USA), is reporting the discovery in the scientific journal Science, to be published on Friday, 9 December 2011.
The ancient bedding was uncovered during excavations at Sibudu rock shelter (KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa), where Lyn Wadley, honorary professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, has been digging since 1998. At least 15 different layers at the site contain plant bedding, dated between 77,000 and 38,000 years ago. The bedding consists of centimetre-thick layers of compacted stems and leaves of sedges and rushes, extending over at least one square metre and up to three square metres of the excavated area. Christine Sievers, of the University of the Witwatersrand, was […]
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Stephan: This is a truth few want to hear.
LOS ANGELES, CA — President Obama asked, ‘What would it take to make iPhones in the United States? Why can’t that work come home?’
According to another dinner guest, and Job’s reply was blunt. ‘Those jobs aren’t coming back.’
At one time, United States was the world’s industrial powerhouse. While the Industrial Revolution began in England, as early as the 17th century, the late 19th century saw the United States become the world leader in industry and manufacturing. The United States has wore that crown for more than a century. But now, intense competition from other countries, especially China, is causing America to lose its lead. The reason lies in the fundamental differences between the United States and Asia and how work is approached.
Corporate executives have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize shareholder profits. This means finding the most profitable solutions for complex business problems. Manufacturing a product such as the iPad or the iPhone is a complex affair. A single iPhone will contain parts from almost every continent on the globe. The components are manufactured around the world, and ultimately assembled at factories in China.
After assembly, those products are sold around the globe.
Apple’s success as a corporation can be measured in […]
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