Individuals, for the most part, fall into one of two categories regarding their attitudes toward work: Either they live to work, or they work to live.

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Writing in The Economist, Will Wilkinson takes a close look at the differences not just between the American and Norwegian prison systems, but between two very different cultural attitudes toward justice.

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They suggest a couple of reasons for the difference in the federal government's attitudes toward the two lawsuits.

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The difference in U.S. attitudes toward these two accomplishments is striking.

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But to give a sense of how broad the attitudes of Muslim intellectuals are toward science and their own tradition, two figures Guessoum discusses are briefly worth noting.

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Pochlopien now ranks social attitudes toward the rich at 6, while in 2000 he would have given them a 4: a two-point rise in a decade.

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