Let's see the dark side of US society: the highest crime rate in the world, child rape (one child in four is molested) and most of the molesters are Christian priests.
However, their choice of method of doing so imposes costs on the rest of us, upon the society at large.
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She's a retired Navy captain and a fellow at the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, joins us by phone from her home in Knoxville.
Belinda Wright, founder and executive director of the Wildlife Protection Society of India, joins us from New Delhi.
If terrorists exploited the open nature of our society to attack us repeatedly, the American people might feel compelled to change that nature, to close it, to defend ourselves.
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"We have to get rid of the blame that society inflicts upon us when it comes to issues of sexual harassment, rape and domestic violence, " she added.
While I agree with Brand's assertion that we can't let extremists determine the terms of debate for the rest of society, especially when their goal is to take us off center by inspiring further hate and distrust, I'm not convinced that taking troops out of Afghanistan would stop terrorism -- and, unlike Brand, I think that evil exists.
Secret soap opera pleasures aside, Downton Abbey has something to teach us about embracing change if we are to survive the transformations of culture and society that shape us.
"But for us the cost of their loss of life is too high for us and society to bear, so we have to incentivize them to overlook the cost, " she says.
What makes the distinction between coverage of the two stores so remarkable is that there is there is no comparison between the alleged anti-female bias in the US military and the actual misogyny of Egyptian society.
The ACA will make us a stronger, fairer society, ending some of the cruel inconsistencies that created additional barriers for millions who could least manage them.
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By placing design in a central place in our understanding of the world around us, and in defining nature and society as sets of interrelated flow systems, Bejan has created (or recognized) a new job description: the flow worker.
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We remain an amazingly prosperous society thanks to the accumulation of capital bequeathed to us by our more prudent forbearers.
Members of the US National Cartoonists Society have been sending in 'Get Well' drawings for Mr Schultz, and these have been posted on their website.
The bravery of the journalists on the scene, the media's determination to ignore Islamic misogyny, and their expulsion of Rosen from polite society all tell us that what drives the international media is not a quest for truth.
It is the nature of our society: egalitarian, free, open and competitive that make us the most adaptive, inventive and resilient country in the world.
Were the government to go after international aid to the PA, not only would it begin a debate in the US and perhaps Europe about the nature of Fatah specifically and Palestinian society generally, it would force the Palestinians' myriad supporters to justify their support for a society that is defined by its goal of annihilating Israel.
Based on the unalterable proviso that drug use among all echelons of society is essentially an unstoppable and ongoing human behavior which has been with us since the dawn of time, any serious reading on the subject of past attempts at any form of drug prohibition would point most normal thinking people in the direction of sensible regulation.
We look at the criminal law for most of us, are people that violate the law and upset our society.
"Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation, " Clinton said in a written statement from the White House.
Ninety percent of Chinese society is charging toward the future at an incredible pace, but there must be a few of us who cast an eye backward.
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It came a few days after the US government pulled out of a joint working group with the Russians on civil society.
Those two examples alone suggest that at least some Americans have hardly lost the gift for seeing beyond everyone else, if it is indeed a gift that the nature of our society has somehow given to us.
The Royal Statistical Society decided to ask a group of British MPs (Member of Parliament, think Representative in the US Congress) a really very simple question.
Dargham al-Zaidi also said his brother - himself a Shia - despised the influence of Iranian Shia clerics over Iraqi politics and society, which is seen to have spread after the US-led invasion.
Our grandmothers and grandfathers have profoundly influenced every part of our society, and as their grandchildren, it is incumbent upon all of us to provide them with the care and support they so deeply deserve.
While Bettelheim tells us that fairy tales help us adjust, Jack Zipes has said the opposite: that the value of fairy tales is that they teach us not to adjust, because the oppressive society in which we live is something we should refuse to adjust to.
Over at the excellent British Psychological Society Digest, psychologist Christian Jarrett introduces us to a group of 12 elderly folks whose brains appear to be immune to the physical effects of aging.
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As a price for a more equitable society, many policymakers, Obama apparently included, would pay the 1% penalty (on behalf of us) as a swap for a more equitable society.
However, to know the basics, starting with what is really considered contemporary art (which I love so much because it truly is the art of our times and the one that talks directly to us as individuals and as a society), to what is a screenprint, to why photography is so hot these days, to what is emerging art, etc.
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