Conversely, countries that accept change will be rewarded with a more vibrant and better-off society, even if they have to accept social changes that they may not welcome.
After interviewing Muslims in 11 European cities, it found that big majorities wanted to be involved in local politics and had no wish to cut themselves off from society.
"There needs to be a sense of fairness, and these best-off people in society have got to contribute more, " he said.
There is a pressing need to focus on this and bridge the gap between the best and worst off in our society.
Ironically, says Rob Cunningham, Christian Aid's programme manager for South Africa, just as the word is taking off in Western society the values it embodies are in decline in the land of its origin.
"The emphasis should be on both governments and the departments of health, education and finance to promote increased healthy living programmes with targeted resources for the less well off in our society because poverty and ill health are inter-related, " he said.
Mr Morris's model does not necessarily imply that political correctness makes society worse off.
My hats off to the Royal Society for this latest step in their program towards a more open distribution of scientific papers.
Perhaps the imperative of heading off a clash with society can help him win over the skeptics and muster the support he needs to keep Novartis in the vanguard of transformational change, for our collective benefit.
Fugard is an enormously generous writer, and in Tsotsi, he gave the filmmakers a framework that lets them find what he always finds in his best work, hope and humanity in characters that society writes off as irredeemable.
"The gay lifestyle was still very much considered taboo and off-limits by mainstream society, " he says.
The Republican Party must not write off entire segments of American society by assuming that its principles have limited appeal.
But even when the east Europeans have departed, debating the merits of immigration will no longer be off-limits in polite society.
Our society is better off when social questions such as same sex marriage are decided through debate and discussion by the people and their elected representatives, not by a handful of judges.
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Nonetheless, the programme's collapse might kill off hopes of changing of Turkish society more profoundly.
Until recently, the Tsimane' were almost entirely cut off from the rest of Bolivian society.
They work hard all day like everyone else, and our society is generally better off when the fruits of our collective labor are more evenly received.
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Dr. Pagel's explanation is that, since language serves the interests of the group, when a new tribe splits off from the rest of a society, the people in the new tribe deliberately differentiate themselves the better to unite.
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"It is not a question of the cost of the reform, it's a question of the reform leading to a fundamentally fairer society where people are taken off a lifetime of benefits, " he said.
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The lord and society would have been worse off had his concept of fairness been to give each servant the same amount since the other two servants employed the capital and returned twice what they had been given.
The sacrifice of those who work to create a society that makes sense does pay off.
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The image - of the shadow cast by the Moon as it blocks the light and particles - was shown off at a meeting of the American Physical Society.
"I can't imagine going to a warzone now, in the 21st Century, let alone a woman whose dad was a millionaire, from upper class society, upping sticks and going off, " says Ms Worthington.
Some 100, 000 U.S. patients also die each year from medical errors, but we keep doctors and nurses around for the simple reason that, as a society, we're better off with them than without them.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting kicks off in the first week in June.
Before we answer this, one needs to revisit the American Economic Historian W.W. Rostow who in the sixties had suggested that countries passed through 5 stages of economic development as Traditional Society, Transitional Stage, Take-off, Drive to Maturity and High Mass Consumption.
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As international troops draw down from Afghanistan and the military presences lessens, what is really going to help the country and provide a future for Afghans is the civil society groups who work to keep children off the streets and to provide viable alternatives, like education and jobs training, that mitigates youth recruitment into ideologically extreme groups or other high-risk behavior.
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Comparisons will inevitably be made to such inspirational-teacher films as "Dead Poets Society, " and they'll be off the mark.
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