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Passion That Doesn't Play Out? Science Tells Us It's Real
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyScientists have long comforted those of us plodding through the tedium that long-term relationships can become by telling us that passion doesn't last for anyone. Within three months to three years, it has done its job of encouraging us to procreate. Perhaps it has kept us together long enough for a child or two to be born. Then, task accomplished, it fades. ...
Black-Tar Heroin: Mexican Growers Target the Heartland
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyA drug many of us know nothing of has spread across the country, according to a stunning series in the Los Angeles Times this week. The drug is called black-tar heroin. While other forms of heroin use appear to be going down, this one is going up. Its cost is low enough to compete with a six-pack of beer. There's some good news in that. It means that even junkies can afford the stuff. So the burglaries and robberies that usually accompany pain-pill and other drug addictions may actually go down as use of black-tar heroin spreads. There's another piece of good news for some neighborhoods that ...
Haitians Believe 'Hidden Forces' Stymie Rebuilding -- and They're Right
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyMany Haitians believe unseen forces demand a sacrifice of life force in return for riches. That Vodou belief equips them to understand Haiti's situation far better than their putative rescuers, who operate within a myth that doesn't match Haiti's reality nearly as well, writes Elizabeth McAlister, associate professor of religion at Wesleyan University. ...
Henrietta Lacks' Story Told at Last, Thanks to Dogged Writer
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyHenrietta Lacks may have saved more lives than any other person in history. A poor black woman who died almost 60 years ago, her story is everywhere this week thanks to a intrepid reporter named Rebecca Skloot. If you see a photo of Skloot, who's 37 and looks younger, you may be tempted to write her off as the latest pretty young thing the media has fallen for. She is pretty, but that's not all. This time, the hoo-hah is well deserved. Her first book, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," is a triumph. It got a rave review from The New York Times last week and another favorable look on ...
Who We Are: Older Avengers or 'Bozos in Heat'?
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyPopular culture must reflect who we are. If it didn't, it wouldn't be popular. Right? Here are three views of who we are right now as reflected by the small screen, two from the West Coast and one from the East. ...
Burqa Fantasies You Can Get Wrapped Up In
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyBonnie, stop. Think this through. You say, "Follow France. Ban the burqa"? I say, "No!!! Never!!! Defend the burqa, freedom loving women." My fellow bloggers have high-minded reasons for you to change your stance -- Jeff's religious freedom defense of the garment, Delia's cautions about heightening societal tensions, Alex's reference to the slippery slope of policing fashion and Lizzie's portrait of a neighborhood where everyone fits in quite well, regardless of dress. I cannot compete with their eloquence. My defense is three words only: ...
What Do Women Want? More!
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyFrances, one of the studies you cite in your post on women earning more and marrying "down" noted that women are less happy than they used to be. Everyone wonders why. You provided several answers. ...
Religious Right Is Wrong on Amanda Simpson: She Deserves U.S. Job
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyMembers of the Religious Right are protesting the appointment of Amanda Simpson as senior technical adviser to the U.S. Commerce Department. They're protesting because the new appointee was born Mitchell Simpson. ...
America the Polite?
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyI completely agree with Melinda about the shameful incivility that's on the Internet. People who make spiteful and ignorant comments about a person who has just died are the lowest of the low. I also bet Peggy Noonan is on target with her suspicion that Americans are despondent over having lost control of the country to vulgarians and crooks. I'm plenty despondent over both those developments. ...
Resolve to Be the Warmth of the World
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyI grew up Southern Baptist, which means my childhood was spent believing in the Big Man with a plan. He had it all in control. Having believed heart and soul in the kind of God that science has been steadily destroying for more than 200 years makes me a kind of throwback in the academic, scientific world where I now live. I still grieve a loss of innocent faith that more modern people hardly feel at all. ...
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