The US is supposed to be the land of opportunity. This column presents evidence that is better thought of as the ‘lands of opportunity’. Economic mobility varies dramatically across US cities. Some have upward-income mobility comparable to the most mobile countries in the world. Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended Reading Tagged: read

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Jonathan Meister, who is deaf, suffered injuries when he was tasered and beaten by cops on Feb. 13, 2013, a new lawsuit claims. Cops in California tasered a deaf man to the ground and then beat him into unconsciousness because he couldn’t hear their orders, a new lawsuit claims. Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended … Read More →

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New remixed music video features Eminem, Ice Cube, Korn and Anonymous aligning forces to set off the Worldwide Wave of Action ~ http://shos.it/Ocjsbt ~ 4… Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended Reading Tagged: read

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Everyone should be forgiven a certain amount of self-indulgence on their wedding day. But Sean Parker’s multi-million-dollar wedding last June in a forest in California’s Big Sur stretched the bounds of forgiveness. Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended Reading Tagged: read

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Though beliefs in Heaven and Hell are related, they are associated with different personality characteristics and social phenomena. Here we present three studies measuring Heaven and Hell beliefs’ associations with and impact on subjective well-being. Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended Reading Tagged: read

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