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Research, though, tells us that getting spanked as a child can leave a discernible mark on people: it makes people more likely to suffer from addiction, depression, and other mental health problems as adults. This is one reason why 37 countries have explicitly banned all physical punishment of children — even by parents — since 1979.
The case against spanking kids - Vox
A state minister from Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's ruling party has described rape as a "social crime", saying "sometimes it's right, sometimes it's wrong", in the latest controversial remarks by an Indian politician about rape.
While we all strive to be good stewards of the earth, “climate change” is a political agenda which attempts to control every aspect of our lives. We urge government at all levels to ignore any plea for money to fund global climate change or “climate justice” initiatives.
New Texas GOP Platform Calls On Politicians To Ignore Climate Change | ThinkProgress
The mechanism by which a good night's sleep improves learning and memory has been discovered by scientists.
BBC News - Sleep's memory role discovered
But once on the ground, the Americans, to the dismay of the Taliban, proved uninterested in any pomp. They rushed through the encounter and did not stop to talk or exchange polite greetings, as is customary in Afghanistan, even during hostage releases. The narrator complained that they had managed to shake hands with only two of the Americans, and that one of them had hastily shoved his left hand forward, considered a particularly rude gesture in Afghanistan.
The Taliban Fighters Were Bummed Bergdahl Didn't Even Say Goodbye - Business Insider
“Janet Yellen, the Fed’s head, rather bizarrely used the prospective price/earnings ratio, one of the weakest of all measures, to justify a statement that Wall Street was not overvalued. (This was doubly strange since her husband, George Akerlof, co-wrote a book with Robert Shiller, who has championed a much better measure…”
Janet Yellen and hindsight value | Andrew Smithers
The euro is resisting the European Central Bank's (ECB) all-out assault on the specter of deflation, surprising the market with its continued rise, and some analysts believe it won't weaken anytime soon. "A lot of people are scratching their heads" over the euro's climb, said Emma Lawson, senior currency strategist at National Australia Bank.
The ECB eases and the euro… rises?
An authoritative new study published recently in the Financial Analysts Journal shows that all investors — individuals and institutions alike — are keeping the lowest percentage of their portfolios in stock in over half a century.
With Qualcomm set to introduce its 4K enabled Snapdragon 805 chipset later this summer, the company’s Senior VP of Product Management, Raj Talluri has suggested that 4K tablets will be widely available before the year’s end.
Prototype 4K Samsung tablet spotted in the wild - News - Trusted Reviews
But such stories will be misleading because in the last six years America’s population grew by about 14 million people. With population growth taken into account, America needs more than 145 million jobs to surpass 2008’s employment percentage.
Americans fared better after Great Depression than today | Al Jazeera America
The world’s solar leader grapples with how to make its solar policies financially sustainable.
The Money Problem With Germany’s Renewable Energy Law in 3 Charts : Greentech Media
Upon winning the 1986 staging, the players of Argentina decided to celebrate reaching the summit of world football with the immediate commencement of shouting, whooping, hollering, singing, jigging around in the carefree style, and the taking on board of sparkling liquids. But there would be no such instant giddy gratification for poor José Luis Brown, José Cuciuffo and Oscar Ruggeri. Argentina’s new world-champion back-line were collectively collared in the dressing room by manager Carlos Bilardo, who proceeded to deliver a lengthy in-depth lecture on matters pertaining to team shape and defensive rigour.