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		<title>The De-Gendering of Divorce: Wives Pay Ex-Husbands Alimony Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liza Mundy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, after giving a talk about the growing number of women who are breadwinners in their marriages, I was approached by an audience member who identified herself as a lawyer. She said that she was definitely seeing this trend in her practice — nearly 40% of working wives now outearn their husbands — and that while economic power is a good thing, overall, for women, it can have one negative outcome many don&#8217;t anticipate. Among her divorce clients, she said, more and more were women who found themselves ordered by a court to pay spousal support to ex-husbands. &#8221;And boy,&#8221; she said, &#8220;are they pissed.&#8221; (MORE: The End of Alimony: How American Divorces Are Changing) That these women are angry is to be expected: men don’t like paying alimony either, and writing a check every month has long been, for men, one of the prime impediments to postmarital bliss. But their reaction also suggests that women, while eager to benefit from progress and expanded opportunities, are not so willing to accept the more painful consequences of our success. What’s sauce for the gander is, alas, sauce for the goose. It may or may not make it easier on these check-writing ex-wives to know that they are part of a larger movement: the degendering of alimony and divorce, which is a natural outgrowth of the degendering of roles in marriage. Once upon a time, the point of alimony was clear: it recognized the essential deal underlying marriage back in the days of “separate spheres,” when it was a husband’s role to provide, and a wife’s role to stay home, raise the children, run the household and enable the husband to be hard-working and high-earning. The economist Gary Becker famously argued that this was how couples maximized their efficiency: dividing the labor enabled both to succeed in their respective spheres. When marriages fell apart, alimony provided legal and economic recognition of the fact that a wife had sacrificed her earning power to maximize that of her husband and enhance the welfare<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=32510&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why God Is a &#8216;Mother,&#8217; Too</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/11/why-god-is-a-mother-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 21:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yolanda Pierce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long before I became familiar with the academic debates concerning calling God &#8220;Mother,&#8221; debates that I am now currently a part of as a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, I was being raised in a household where I instinctively understood that the divine presence was manifest in the loving hands and arms of mothers, and most especially in the life of my grandmother who raised me. My grandmother’s kitchen was a theological laboratory where she taught me how to love people just as naturally as she taught me to make peach cobbler and buttermilk biscuits. I watched and listened as she ministered to the sick and the lost, with a Bible in one hand and a freshly baked pound cake in the other, despite having no official ministry role. I knew that if God was real, if God truly loved me as a parent loves a child, then God was also “Mother” and not only “Father.” Only years of dogma and doctrine force you to unlearn what you know to be true in your own heart, demanding “Father” as the only acceptable appellation and concept for God. (MORE: Don&#8217;t Call the Planet &#8216;Mother&#8217; Earth) Scholars who oppose the notion of God as Mother often focus on the gender of Christ and his naming of God as “Abba” or Father. Others argue that God is beyond gender, all the while privileging masculine language to understand God. There are also scholars, myself among them, who support the naming of God as Mother along with God as Father, deriving their support from biblical passages which privilege more “feminine” metaphors and analogies, including the image of God as a nursing mother (Isaiah 49:15; Numbers 11:12); God as a midwife (Psalm 22:8-10); and God as one who gives birth (Isaiah 42:14). We do not have to choose only one form of address. God is Creator and Sustainer. God is Protector and Defender. God is Mother and Father. If we are humble, we know that human words and metaphors are incomplete and can never do justice<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=32308&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There are Sex Slaves All Over the U.S.  Right Now.</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/09/cleveland-viewpoint-there-are-sex-slaves-all-over-the-u-s-right-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who deprive young girls of their freedom for years and years are obviously crazy sickos who need to be put away for life. Nobody’s going to argue about that. Except that for most of history, treating women like they’re ownable was the normal thing to do. In many places in the world, it’s still the normal thing to do. And although they don&#8217;t always get the coverage that Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight are receiving, women are being held against their will all the time in the U.S. (MORE: The Mind of the Kidnap Victim: How They Endure and Recover) About a month before the voluble Charles Ramsey (who turns out to have been a repeat domestic abuser) was helping to kick down the door to free Berry and her daughter, Julio Cesar Revolorio Ramos of Adelphi, Md., was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl. He was part of a multi-state kidnapping and prostitution ring that has victimized hundreds of women and girls since at least 2008. And then in New York on April 30, just a week before the Ohio case, seven women were freed when another prostitution ring was broken up and 13 people arrested. Most of the women had been trafficked through Mexico, typically by men whom they believed at the time to be their boyfriends. The U.S. attorneys prosecuting the case allege that the women were beaten, threatened with physical harm to them and their family, sexually assaulted, and verbally abused if they declined to have sex with strangers for money. Or sometimes even if they didn&#8217;t. This doesn’t sound all that different from what we know about what happened in Ohio, or in Austria (twice!), or in Utah, or in California or in any of the high profile cases where girls have been kidnapped and held captive for long periods. But unless you’ve been looking, you may not have heard about the rescued prostitutes, even though their story is arguably a bigger one. According to the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=32259&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pete Cashmore: Top 10 Things My Generation Likes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Cashmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, Millennials. Are we politically engaged and civic-minded Twitter addicts?  Or narcissists with a penchant for Instagramming our food?  We’re either the most socially-connected generation thus far with hundreds of Facebook friends, or we’re an anti-social bunch who would rather tap away at our smartphones than strike up a conversation. Such is the challenge of distilling the essence of an entire generation. These are questions best answered by sharper minds than mine. But in the last eight years of running a new media company I’ve tried — with occasional success — to decipher what makes this “connected generation” tick, and I do have some observations. (COVER STORY: The New Greatest Generation) Perhaps the fundamental change in modern media consumption is a desire to participate. A generation of consumers now perceive themselves as content creators, with the material they publish competing with more traditional outlets for attention. My Facebook news feed may feature a link to TIME sandwiched between a friend’s photo album and a Spotify playlist. Where some see a challenge, new media companies see opportunity. Distribution once meant having a cable channel or a shelf at the bookstore. Now, the reader distributes the content through social networks. In media at least, “community” trumps “consumer”. Participatory media is reshaping the advertising world, too. If ad execs were to take a drink every time they said “engagement”, Madison Avenue would need more liquor stores. The trend is a good one, however: Why shouldn’t advertising be engaging?  Why can’t it be entertaining?  Can brands create ads so good we’ll want to share them? Having established that this generation loves to share, brands and media companies like ours increasingly seek to understand why. Gathering information about consumer preferences is no longer the challenge: There is more data about this generation than any other, and readers vocally express their opinions on a daily basis. Rather, we receive so much feedback from our community that increasingly our challenge is to make sense of it all. (POLL: Who&#8217;s the Most Influential Millennial?) Unsurprisingly, we find that humorous content is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=32227&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: Is Mother&#8217;s Day Sexist?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/09/viewpoint-is-mothers-day-sexist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 09:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Stone Lombardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s the time of year when we celebrate mothers and — about a month later — fathers. But the way we view each holiday reveals a lot about the growing gap between cultural gender stereotypes and the reality of most families’ day-to-day lives. How do we celebrate Mother’s Day? Well, it’s Mom’s day off. This is the day she does no cooking, no cleaning and, of course, no childcare. She is brought breakfast in bed and taken out to a restaurant. Cards abound that show women soaking in bubble baths, sipping wine, reading books with their feet up. Mother’s Day is the one day she doesn’t have to be a mother, a job for which she is on duty the other 364 days. The other half of this image is the hapless father, trying to take her place for that one day. You know — breakfast in bed is served, but the mother is already imagining the disaster in the kitchen, with pancake batter all over the floor and dishes mounted in the sink. Dad is clueless, and dresses the kids in striped shirts and plaid shorts. (To take just one example: “For my Wife, on Mother’s Day. You just relax. I’ll take care of everything,” one card reads. The cover shows a guy in sports jersey holding out a flower. Open it up and it says, “By the way, where is everything? Happy Mother’s Day!”) Father’s Day, by contrast, is thought of as the day that Dad does spend with his children. It’s a day for a family barbecue, or to take Dad fishing or on some other activity he enjoys. Dad doesn’t need a break from all the caretaking he does all year — rather this is a day to engage him in family life. (MORE: Smother Mother: Why Intensive Child-Rearing Hurts Parents and Kids) Other messages in Mother’s Day and Father’s Day cards also reinforce sex stereotypes. Moms are thanked for the hugs, for drying the tears, for “always being there.” Dads, though, tend to be thanked as role models and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31733&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Availability of Plan B Makes Philadelphia Abortion Doc an Anachronism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 09:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Caplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kermit Gosnell — the doctor who is on trial for killing a patient, four newborn babies, and performing numerous illegal abortions in a cesspool of a clinic in West Philadelphia—is many things.  He is inept, according to many who work for him. He did monstrous things — according to eyewitnesses, he severed the spinal cords of liveborn babies because he did not know what he was doing in trying to end late-term pregnancies. He is a doctor indifferent to patient welfare as, according to witness after witness, he had inadequately trained staff use inappropriate assemblyline care for those who came to see him. And Kermit Gosnell is a pawn in the nation’s ongoing moral war over elective abortion.  Those who oppose abortion see in him all that is wrong with allowing the choice to end pregnancy.  Those who defend the right to choice see in him all that is wrong when efforts to restrict access to abortion and push the procedure out of the medical mainstream produce filthy third-world level facilities staffed by hacks and charlatans. As both pro-choice and pro-life forces attempt to put Kermit Gosnell to use to argue the moral rectitude of their position, and the jury in his trial continues to deliberate, there is a danger that we will lose sight of what Kermit Gosnell really is — an anachronism. (MORE: Abortion Doctor&#8217;s Murder Trial Sparks Media Debate) Gosnell should certainly go to jail — and in all likelihood, he will. The hardened veteran police who raided his clinic were overwhelmed with emotion and anger at what they found there. But technology is making it less and less likely that the public face of abortion in the future will bear any resemblance to Kermit Gosnell and his backroom butchershop. Gosnell was a stop of last resort for woman late in their pregnancies. They sought an abortion past the point of fetal viability — a choice illegal in Pennsylvania and throughout the United States. For these women, Gosnell and his ilk are their only option. But regardless<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31919&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should College Sports Be Banned?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noliwe M. Rooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Correction appended: April 29, 2013 Spelman College, a historically black women’s college in Atlanta recently announced that it would eliminate its athletic department, disband all sports teams and withdraw from the NCAA. It plans to reallocate the roughly $900,000 in savings — from an overall operating budget of roughly $100 million — toward a wellness initiative that will emphasize fitness and focus on activities like golf, swimming, tennis, yoga and Pilates. Spelman’s president, Beverly Daniel Tatum, said she believed that it was more important to focus on the health of the entire campus than to use those funds to support Spelman&#8217;s 80 student athletes who qualified for NCAA funding. I applaud the efforts of Spelman, my alma mater, to improve the health of America&#8217;s youth and especially black women, many of whom are more prone to diseases that are helped by exercise — such as diabetes and high blood pressure — than are other groups. But I worry that the decision might be used to strengthen calls to reduce — or fully cut — Title IX funding, the 1972 federal legislation mandating equal access for women in education, including sports. Despite overwhelming public support for the policy and volumes of data attesting to its positive impact for women, naysayers still abound. (MORE: Do Black Women Really Want to Be Fat?) For example, a 2012 article in the Atlantic blamed Title IX for everything from ACL injuries to eating disorders and sexual abuse by coaches. And last June, a writer for U.S. News and World Report wrote a column titled &#8220;Title IX&#8217;s Dark Legacy&#8221; that argued that the policy was pitting men and women against each other and ultimately ruining men&#8217;s sports. But what&#8217;s particularly interesting about Spelman&#8217;s choice is that the relatively paltry amount it is saving highlights the fact that far more money is consistently spent on collegiate men&#8217;s sports than on women&#8217;s. According to a report released earlier this year by Donna Desrochers, a principal researcher for the Delta Cost Project at the American Institutes for Research, between 2005 and 2010,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31767&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hypocrisy of Foodies: Restaurant Worker Abuse</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/26/the-hypocrisy-of-foodies-restaurant-worker-abuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anya Sacharow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our growing, conscientious food culture has put a priority on eating all things sustainable, local, organic and free-range. Though most foodies would never step foot in a McDonald&#8217;s, they would happily eat at a farm-to-table restaurant where food is sourced according to the highest standards. And yet, here&#8217;s the unspoken hypocrisy. We give more thought to how the chickens and cows on our plate have been treated than we do about the people who cook and serve our food. Restaurant workers hold six of the 10 lowest-paying occupations in the U.S., earning less, on average, than farm workers and domestic workers. Just 20% of restaurant jobs pay a living wage, and women, people of color and immigrants are often barred from getting these living-wage positions. It is &#8220;the chasm between American food values and business practices,&#8221; writes Saru Jayaraman, founder of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and author of the new book Behind the Kitchen Door. (MORE: Can We Drink Soda Responsibly?) The restaurant industry can&#8217;t blame the recession: it&#8217;s one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors of the U.S. economy, with annual job-growth rate of 3.4% in 2012, double the growth rate of overall U.S. employment. At the same time, the federal minimum wage for tipped workers has remained at $2.13 an hour for more than 20 years. In 2010, the median wage for restaurant workers was $9.02 an hour, including tips, which amounts to a wage below the federal poverty line for a family of four. Jayaraman cites examples of rampant exploitation and discrimination. Light-skinned employees are regularly hired and promoted above darker-skinned employees, even when the latter may have more experience and knowledge of the menu and serving customers. Abusive labor practices also prevent restaurant workers from benefits such as sick days, which subsequently poses a serious public-health threat. In 2011, the CDC reported that almost 12% of restaurant workers said that they worked while suffering from flu symptoms, vomiting, or diarrhea on two or more shifts in the last year. Not surprisingly, the CDC also cited restaurants as the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31766&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Texting Killing the English Language?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/25/is-texting-killing-the-english-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McWhorter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texting has long been bemoaned as the downfall of the written word, “penmanship for illiterates,” as one critic called it. To which the proper response is LOL. Texting properly isn&#8217;t writing at all — it&#8217;s actually more akin to spoken language. And it&#8217;s a &#8220;spoken&#8221; language that is getting richer and more complex by the year. First, some historical perspective. Writing was only invented 5,500 years ago, whereas language probably traces back at least 80,000 years. Thus talking came first; writing is just an artifice that came along later. As such, the first writing was based on the way people talk, with short sentences — think of the Old Testament. However, while talk is largely subconscious and rapid, writing is deliberate and slow. Over time, writers took advantage of this and started crafting tapeworm sentences such as this one, from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: “The whole engagement lasted above 12 hours, till the gradual retreat of the Persians was changed into a disorderly flight, of which the shameful example was given by the principal leaders and the Surenas himself.” (MORE: Why Americans Need Spelling Bees and Vocabulary Tests) No one talks like that casually — or should. But it is natural to desire to do so for special occasions, and that’s what oratory is, like the grand-old kinds of speeches that William Jennings Bryan delivered. In the old days, we didn&#8217;t much write like talking because there was no mechanism to reproduce the speed of conversation. But texting and instant messaging do — and a revolution has begun. It involves the brute mechanics of writing, but in its economy, spontaneity and even vulgarity, texting is actually a new kind of talking. There is a virtual cult of concision and little interest in capitalization or punctuation. The argument that texting is “poor writing” is analogous, then, to one that the Rolling Stones is “bad music” because it doesn’t use violas. Texting is developing its own kind of grammar and conventions. (MORE: Banning the Term Illegal Immigrant Won&#8217;t Change the Stigma) Texting is developing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31712&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Boston Bombing: Should Cameras Now Be Everywhere?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the capture of his brother Dzhokhar, some lawmakers began calling for more public cameras of the sort that were so instrumental in their swift apprehension. Representative Peter King (R-N.Y.,) a member of the House Homeland Security and Intelligence committees, told MSNBC that video cameras in public locations are &#8220;a great law enforcement method&#8221; that &#8220;keeps us ahead of the terrorists who are constantly trying to kill us.&#8221; (MORE: Brother&#8217;s Keeper: Did Older Brother Lure Bombing Suspect into Plot?) It&#8217;s a safe bet that there will be more video cameras coming to cities across the United States. London, which was shaken by a subway bombing on July 7, 2007, now has upwards of one million surveillance cameras. So this is a good time to ask if we should put some limits on the government’s all-seeing eye. The answer should be yes. We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public – but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens. (MORE: FBI Will Face Questions Over Past Probe of Suspects) The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on – though it is impossible to know how much. Back in 2006, the New York Civil Liberties Union sent inspectors out to look for street-level surveillance cameras and found nearly 4,500 in Manhattan alone. There are, no doubt, many thousands more today in Manhattan, and countless more in cities and towns and shopping malls across the country. In addition to these government-installed cameras, there are street-facing security cams installed by office complexes, apartment buildings, and retail stores. In the Boston Marathon investigation, law enforcement relied in large part on surveillance video from a Lord &#38; Taylor department store that appeared to show someone dropping off a heavy bag at the bombing site. (Photos taken the old-fashioned way were also important.) (MORE: Bloody Visions: What Would the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31542&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">This frame grab from a video released by the FBI on April 18, 2013, shows Tamerlan, front, in black cap, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in white cap, back right, walking through the crowd before the explosions at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Mass., on April 15, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Viewpoint: The Boy Scouts Stoop to a New Low</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Bragman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the entire U.S., and indeed much of the world, was glued to television sets watching a massive manhunt for one of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, the Boy Scouts of America thought it would be the perfect time to announce that they will finally be taking a long-delayed vote at a national meeting on May 20 about whether to overturn their controversial policy banning homosexuals from scouting. (MORE: Boy Scouts Consider Ending Policy Banning Gay Members and Troop Leaders) In p.r. parlance, this is called &#8220;burying the news.&#8221; It works like this: when an organization doesn&#8217;t want an announcement to get attention then they release the information on a busy news day, or a Friday, or in this case, both. The thinking is that more pressing news will overshadow the story; that the shift between weekday and weekend staffs at news organizations will help it &#8220;get lost in the shuffle&#8221;; and that by the time Monday rolls around, more current events will have overshadowed the announcement, essentially making it &#8220;old news.&#8221; As a veteran media-relations counselor, I have executed this strategy myself. And depending on what is being announced, it can work. But in this case, it not only has no chance for success, it&#8217;s almost guaranteed to anger both the media and the interested parties and cast the Boy Scouts in a more negative lights. The end result is that not only is the issue not buried, it gets even more attention. (PHOTOS: LIFE with the Boy Scouts, 1971: Photos from an Era of Change) It&#8217;s not surprising that the Boy Scouts used such a misguided tactic. They have handled the public aspects of this issue badly ever since it first became a topic of discussion in the early 1980s. As recently as January, they announced that they would be voting on a resolution at a national executive meeting, only to contradict themselves by later announcing that the issue &#8220;needed more study.&#8221; Not only that, but the compromise that will be voted on in May is sure to appease<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31535&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Holds Women Back from the TIME 100?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai becomes one of the youngest females ever to appear on TIME’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Like Gabby Giffords and Aung San Suu Kyi — both also on this year’s list — the Pakistani schoolgirl shot last October by Taliban gunmen has come to represent bravery in the teeth of intimidation, optimism in adversity and the paradox of strength in victimhood, the three syllables of her globally famous first name resonating like a melody of hope: Ma-la-la. Yet the injured activist, now living in England as she recuperates, also reminds us of the persistence of a dangerously stupid idea, one that every year depresses the number of women on the TIME 100: the fear still held by a startlingly large proportion of men that every advance for womankind takes away from their own power. In the past 12 months this idea has seen female progress come under fierce attack, all too literally in the case of Malala and many other girls and women. Some men not only oppose equality laws and initiatives designed to improve the representation of women in parliaments and boardrooms and in other positions of influence that more routinely deliver men than women to the TIME 100; these men also seek to block the entitlement of girls and women to basic human rights such as health care or to deny the parity of educational opportunity that Malala advocates. (MORE: The 2013 TIME 100) That parity is essential if women are ever to match men in attainment and influence. In many countries, girls are excluded from primary schooling; two-thirds of illiterate adults are women. But even education to postgraduate level doesn’t give women the earning power of their male equivalents. From sweatshop workers to senior executives, women take home less pay than men. They head a paltry 17 of the world’s 195 countries. They occupy only 19.6% of seats in national legislatures and 10% of seats on the boards of large corporations across the globe. By contrast, just over<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31397&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: Anti-Semitism Never Goes Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi David Wolpe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent trip to Paris with my 16-year-old daughter, we visited a score of museums: The Louvre of course, the magnificent Quai Branly, the Rodin museum, the Pompidou center, the Hugo house. Each had a small if cursory security check. Then we sought out the small, very fine Jewish museum in the Marais. Here, we passed through a double glass door that did not allow you to continue to the front until the back had closed. The saddest part was my daughter&#8217;s insouciance. &#8220;Did you notice the security?&#8221; I asked. She nodded, &#8220;Dad, it&#8217;s the Jewish museum.&#8221; There was nothing more to be said. My daughter was raised in Los Angeles. She and I live almost untouched by anti-Semitism, a blessing our ancestors could not have imagined. But the experience in Paris reminded us that we carry a deep, persistent awareness that many people in the world quite simply hate us. (MORE: Ancient Fear Rises Anew) During our trip, the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University, in cooperation with the European Jewish Congress, issued a report that showed that there had been a significant jump in anti-Semitic incidents in Europe last year, with France leading the way. Researchers noted that there had been many &#8220;copycat&#8221; attacks following a shooting at a school in Toulouse in which a Muslim extremist gunned down 3 children and a Rabbi, and that physical assaults on Jews in France had almost doubled. Researchers also drew a connection between the rise in anti-semitic incidents and the ongoing economic crisis. As the world witnessed in Weimer Germany, mounting stress activates the scapegoat syndrome, and anti-Semitism often spikes with financial downturns. Uncertainty about the Euro and unemployment contribute to the phenomenon of targeting Jewish institutions and individuals. (MORE: The Limitations of Being &#8220;Spiritual But Not Religious&#8221;) But it&#8217;s not just France — anti-Semitism persists in some degree in a depressing range of cultures and countries. You can tour Europe, east and west, and find a resurgence of parties like Greece’s Golden Dawn or Hungary’s Jobbik party,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31326&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Men Really Have a Biological Clock?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Tuteur, M.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news that autism and schizophrenia may be related to paternal age has brought mixed feeling to the legions of women who have long been warned about the dangers of trying to have children too late. Finally, it seems that the imperative to reproduce sooner rather than later will fall on prospective fathers as well as mothers. But calling this new awareness of the health risks of paternal age a &#8216;biological clock&#8217; is somewhat misleading as the issues men and women face have profoundly different implications (for more, read Jeffrey Kluger&#8217;s story in the new issue of TIME, available to subscribers here). The term originally had nothing to do with fertility. In the medical literature, it referred to the mysterious mechanism behind recurrent biological changes—daily shifts in body temperature, for example—and applied to men, women and amoebas alike. But during the 1970s, as women began flooding the work force, it began to be used—often by men—as the temporal waning of a woman&#8217;s ability to conceive, the force that ends ovulation and brings on menopause.  &#8221;The clock is ticking for the career woman,&#8221; warned Richard Cohen in the Washington Post in 1978. (MORE: Can You Afford to Start Parenting at Middle Age?) Today the biological clock refers to the drop off in female fertility after the age of 35, a decline that can begin even earlier. According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), “age is a significant factor influencing women’s ability to conceive.” A classic study of artificial insemination showed that after 12 cycles, 74% of women younger than 31 became pregnant, compared to 54% of women more than 35 years old. Moreover, when older women do get pregnant, the chance of having a miscarriage rises dramatically. Although a woman&#8217;s risk of bearing a child with a disorder like Trisomy 21 (Down&#8217;s Syndrome) also rises after the age of 35, the biological clock really refers to whether she can conceive at all. (The fact that the cut-off point varies from woman to woman only brings more uncertainty and anxiety.) For men,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=22070&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: You Can&#8217;t Be An &#8220;Accidental&#8221; Racist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Touré</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was driving home toward Brooklyn when Questlove called, out of breath with excited indignation. &#8220;Yo man, have you heard &#8216;Accidental Racist&#8217;?&#8221; I hadn&#8217;t. He was apoplectic. &#8220;You&#8217;ve gotta listen to this song! I can&#8217;t believe they went there. And LL&#8217;s worse than Brad! You gotta write something about this.&#8221; (MORE: Accidental Racist: How Bad Punditry Makes Bad Music) I Googled it as I drove. I know I shouldn&#8217;t have but I couldn&#8217;t help it. The title had me nervous: racism is the exercise of power so you can&#8217;t really be an accidental racist though you can benefit from and receive white privilege without attempting to. Maybe that&#8217;s what Brad and LL meant. I was trying to have an open mind, but the phrase conjured up an apology rooted on a disavowal of fault that made me cringe. To hear whites say that their privileged position isn&#8217;t their fault is insulting. And while recording artists can sometimes discuss race in smart ways (think of the work of Public Enemy or Sly Stone&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Call Me Nigger, Whitey,&#8221;) it&#8217;s hard to have a nuanced conversation within the constraints of lyrics. Still, as I pressed play, I wondered if the song would find its way over my low expectations. It did not. (MORE: Why Prince Triumphed with Gen X) Brad Paisley&#8217;s apology song, dripping with white guilt, is a mea culpa for wearing a symbol of the confederacy — a symbol of slavery and white supremacy. To claim, as Paisley does, that wearing a confederate flag is actually about being a Lynard Skynard fan so we should ignore the dominant meaning, is silly. You can&#8217;t wear a swastika and say, &#8220;Oh don&#8217;t be upset&#8211;I&#8217;m thinking of the way the Chinese used it before it was appropriated by the Nazis.&#8221; That&#8217;s not how symbols work. If you choose to walk around wearing a confederate flag tee, instead of one with the words &#8220;Lynard Skynard,&#8221; then you&#8217;ll make some people rightly uncomfortable and wondering how deep your nostalgia goes and how insensitive you are. I have no problem with Southerners being proud of the South, but Paisley does have a lot to learn, as he concedes. Then there&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=30682&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Celebrities Can Teach Us About Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only a day before Roger Ebert&#8217;s death, the film critic, who had thyroid cancer since 2002, announced publicly that he was “taking a leave of presence.” This was clever, but most of us were unprepared for the news. Contrast this with Valerie Harper’s proactively transparent approach. “I don’t think of dying. I think of being here now,” Harper said in a recent People interview. Harper, who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, has been refreshingly open about her illness. “I feel so much better not hiding,” she said in an interview on NBC. Although she excused celebrities who want to stay private, she felt really good being open, saying, “If you die, you are not a failure. You’re just somebody who had cancer.” It used to be that Hollywood stars seem to last forever until, suddenly, they disappear. That’s what Gary Cooper did in the 1960s. He had cancer for almost a year, but his adoring fans only realized something was wrong when Jimmy Stewart picked up his Oscar for him that spring in tears. (MORE: Roger Ebert: Farewell to a Film Legend and a Friend) It&#8217;s understandable that people who build their reputations on images have a hard time being straight with us about their final days. But we can learn a lot more from celebrities who buck the trend and, having spent a lifetime in the public eye, do not shy away from it in death. Take Art Buchwald. When he suffered a stroke and subsequent amputation, he told Diane Rehm on the radio from his hospice bed that it was time to go. He discussed his living will on CNN. Then he went into hospice living long enough to write another book, Too Soon to Say Goodbye. When he did finally die in January 2007, his son posted a video of him the following day, saying: “Hi. I’m Art Buchwald, and I just died.” Buchwald did us a public service by helping us talk about what no one wants to talk about: we will all die, eventually, and to the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=30632&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Banning the Term &#8216;Illegal Immigrant&#8217; Won&#8217;t Change the Stigma</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McWhorter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Associated Press announced that it would ban the term illegal immigrant from its stylebook. They are among many organizations and immigration advocates of late who argue that the term is uncivil, or even defamatory. (MORE: Immigration Debate: The Problem with the Word &#8220;Illegal&#8221;) Whether there is a point in that or not – and quite a few, including immigrants, think there isn’t – the main problem here is a matter of how language works. The idea is that banning “illegal immigrant” will change how people think, that using the term undocumented immigrant will improve the public opinion of the people in question. But it won&#8217;t. The problem is that language dances much more lightly on thought than we often suppose, and in a battle between thought and language, thought has a way of winning out. Words’ meanings, even when crafted to bend away from opinion, drift back to where we didn’t want them to be, like a fly keeps landing on you after you swat it away. This has happened to previous attempts to expunge a term of its negative meaning. Consider affirmative action, now so conventional we rarely stop to parse what the actual words comprising it mean. “Affirming” what? What kind of “action”? The term was a magnificently artful and gracious construction of the 1960s, giving a constructive, positive air to an always controversial policy. Note, however, that political opponents soon came to associate the term with the same negative feelings they had about the policy it referred to, such that today it is uttered with scorn by many. Racial preferences was the chosen replacement – but now it is now as loaded as affirmative action was. (MORE: How Affirmative Action Backfires At Universities) Words cannot escape reality. A similar thing happened with welfare, a constructive euphemism compared to once common terms of disparagement such as the dole. Once again, though, surly associations long ago settled back down on the term. By now we have to think a bit to process that the original meaning of welfare, in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=30577&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever Happened to the &#8220;Common Good&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Wallis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an ancient idea that we have lost, but can and should find again. It’s called simply the common good. It goes back many centuries, but the need for a new dialogue about what it means and what its practice would require of us has never seemed more critical. Our politics have become so polarized and increasingly volatile; and our political institutions have lost the public trust. Few Americans today would suggest their political leaders are serving the common good. The common good has origins in the beginings of Chrisitanity. An early church father, John Chrysostom (c. 347–407), once wrote: “This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good . . . for nothing can so make a person an imitator of Christ as caring for his neighbors.&#8221; Of course, all our religious traditions say that we are indeed our neighbor’s keeper, but today people of every faith don’t often actually say and do the things that their faith says and stands for. (MORE: The Limitations of Being &#8220;Spiritual But Not Religious&#8221;) The notion of the common good has both religious and secular roots going back to Catholic social teaching, the Protestant social gospel, Judaism, Islam, and in the American Constitution itself, which says that government should promote “the general welfare.” It is our fundamental political inclination: don’t go right, don’t go left; go deeper. But we’ve lost touch with that moral compass in Washington D.C., where it has been replaced by both ideology and money. A commitment to the common good could bring us together and solve the deepest problems this country and the world now face: How do we work together? How do we treat each other, especially the poorest and most vulnerable? How do we take care of not just ourselves but also one another? The common good is also the best way to find common ground with other people—even with those who don’t agree with us or share our politics.  Both liberals and conservatives<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=30435&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: Leave Ben Carson Alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McWhorter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Carson criticized Obamacare, sharply, with Obama listening, at the National Prayer Breakfast in February. And Carson is black. Yes, Carson is the black – gasp – conservative of the moment, this weekend also speaking out against gay marriage, for which he has been forced to apologize. Unsurprisingly, Carson, an accomplished neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins, has been celebrated by the right, and is considering politics. Enter the usual dogpile from black commenters: Carson as a traitor, a sellout, airing his views not from sincerity but because he wants to please the white establishment and make a buck. Many wonder why so many black people seem to treat true diversity of opinion as heresy. There is, in fact, a reason which, in itself, makes sense. The idea is that black conservatives, in distracting whites from thinking about racism, impede black progress and even give entrée to a possible racist backlash. That’s not crazy at all – but the problem is that history has shown it to be invalid. (MORE: John McWhorter on Stop-and-Frisk Isn&#8217;t the Problem) We can go back to the fifties, when black columnist and author George Schuyler went sharply rightward in his opinions. Schuyler disapproved not only of Malcolm X but Martin Luther King, Jr. So, black columnist Carl Rowan dissed Schuyler as being “shrewd for telling white America what it wanted to hear.” Others tarred Schuyler later as “on a quest for mainstream acceptance,” “self-hating” and so on. Yet during exactly the time Schuyler was giving such offense, America witnessed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, with a president of Southern origins playing a key role in ushering them into reality. It would appear that Schuyler’s views had rather little effect upon black progress. We move on. Say, to the nineties. Ever since Shelby Steele published his National Book Award-winning The Content of Our Character in 1990, the same types who hated on Schuyler have used him for target practice. Steele argued that for black liberals, decrying racism has become a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=30368&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s So Great About a Princeton Husband?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/01/my-advice-to-princeton-women-grads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominique Browning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it about that place, anyway? Is someone there starting a Regressive Gender Issues think tank? In the most recent throwback moment, a Princeton grad (Susan Patton, Class of &#8217;77) seems just a tad hung up on the excellence of marrying her own kind. Given my wonderful friends who are Princeton grads, I’d like to think that they aren’t as hung up on the glory of their alma mater. But I have noticed, over the decades, that Princetonians in particular and Ivy Leaguers in general suffer from a cloying self-importance and parochialism. You know who I mean — the ones who let you know, in the first 10 minutes of conversation, where he or she went to school, especially if the place is Yale or &#8230; uh, Cambridge. But, hey, I went to Wesleyan, which means everyone thinks I dropped acid for four years. (MORE: Browning: More Ways Women Sabotage Themselves) And yet there is also a certain amount of self-loathing for a woman who graduated from such a fine institution to be telling young Princeton women that they have to watch out for their “shelf life,” that they will never have a better opportunity than college to snag a husband, that they should make it “one of your many life missions to find your life partner.” Patton wishes someone had given her this advice back in the day. She wishes she had married a Princeton guy because her ex “went to a school of almost no name recognition” and “had no respect for the hoopla, the traditions, the allegiance, the orange and black.” She was smarter than he was, and in the final accounting, Patton now says, &#8220;I am divorced. I did not marry a Princeton man. I wish I had.&#8221; Like Princeton men don’t leave their Princeton wives? As a matter of fact, I have some advice to all those Princeton gals who married the guy they sat next to in English 101. You’ve been swimming in the same small gene pool for, say, the past 44<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=30348&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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