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		<title>What 10 Things Should You Do Every Day To Improve Your Life?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Barker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 05:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1) Get out in nature You probably seriously underestimate how important this is. (Actually, there’s research that says you do.) Being in nature reduces stress, makes you morecreative, improves your memory and may even make you a better person. 2) Exercise We all know how important this is, but few people do it consistently. Other than health benefits too numerous to mention, exercise makes you smarter,happier, improves sleep, increases libido and makes you feel better about your body. A Harvard study that has tracked a group of men for more than 70 years identified it as one of the secrets to a good life. 3) Spend time with friends and family Harvard happiness expert Daniel Gilbert identified this as one of the biggest sources of happiness in our lives. Relationships are worth more than you think (approximately an extra $131,232 a year.) Not feeling socially connected can make you stupider and kill you. Loneliness can lead to heart attack, stroke and diabetes. The longest lived people on the planet all place a strong emphasis on social engagement and good relationships are more important to a long life than even exercise. Friends are key to improving your life. Share good news and enthusiatically respond when others share good news with you to improve your relationships. Want to instantly be happier? Do something kind for them. 4) Express gratitude It will make you happier. It will improve your relationships. It can make you a better person. It can make life better for everyone around you. 5) Meditate Meditation can increase happiness, meaning in life, social support and attention span while reducing anger, anxiety, depression and fatigue. Along similar lines, prayer can make you feel better — even if you’re not religious. 6) Get enough sleep You can’t cheat yourself on sleep and not have it affect you. Being tired actually makes it harder to be happy. Lack of sleep = more likely to get sick. “Sleeping on it” does improve decision making. Lack of sleep can make you more likely to behave unethically. There is such a thing as beauty sleep. Naps are great too. Naps increase alertness and performance on the job,enhance learning ability and purge negative emotions while enhancing positive ones. Here’s how to improve your naps. 7) Challenge yourself Learning another language can keep your mind sharp. Music]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Duke Porn Star Isn&#8217;t as Empowered as She Claims</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/03/05/the-duke-porn-star-isnt-as-empowered-as-she-claims/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eliana Dockterman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t heard, there&#8217;s a freshman at Duke University who moonlights as a porn star. During school breaks, Belle Knox (that&#8217;s her porn name — she&#8217;s still keeping her real name under wraps) flies to Los Angeles and shoots adult films. She uses the money she makes to pay for college&#8230;as well as purchase iPad minis and designer handbags, according to a profile of her in the Duke Chronicle. Her identity was revealed on campus in January when a male friend got drunk at a fraternity rush event and told others. The story of the freshman porn star quickly spread by word of mouth and text. Initially, Knox shied away from the spotlight after being criticized by her fellow students and receiving anonymous sexual threats. But soon, the future gender studies major who says she&#8217;s a Libertarian decided to use her notoriety to become a voice of feminism in the porn industry and disclosed her story to XO Jane, the Cut and other blogs. On Tuesday, Knox was again a top search term when Playboy published an interview with her in which she revealed her porn name for the first time. Again, she tried to make her case for adult films as a venue of female empowerment saying  that while many feminists fight against the porn industry — arguing it degrades and objectifies women, gives a generation of porn-obsessed men unrealistic sexual expectations, and overall hurts our relationships — there needs to be someone within the porn industry fighting for women&#8217;s sexual autonomy as well as their self-expression. It&#8217;s a sophisticated argument from a student at an elite school. But even with Playboy it fell flat after the interviewer repeatedly questioned her about some of the more degrading things she&#8217;d done on camera. And it&#8217;s gone nowhere with her peers online who have been brutal in their critiques: &#8220;So being choked, spit on and degraded is now empowering? Feminist logic&#8230;I&#8217;d rather have my dignity and loans than work as a prostitute. I&#8217;m sure Daddy&#8217;s proud,&#8221; someone commented on a Collegiate ACB board. Perhaps Knox]]></description>
		
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		<title>Africa Is Not a Country</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/03/05/africa-is-not-a-country/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zocalo Public Square]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not to pick on Sarah Palin, but it’s troubling for all Americans when there are rumors that a former Vice Presidential candidate thinks Africa is a country, not a continent. Africa is a blurry image in the mind of many Americans&#8211;warring, impoverished, unfixable. But then there are the stories of Africa the West doesn&#8217;t hear about: urban farmers feeding their families on unclaimed plots of land, a nonprofit building mapping apps to combat election fraud and violence, the booming Nigerian “Nollywood” producing blockbuster movies. In advance of the Zócalo event “Can Homegrown Innovation Change Africa?”, we asked observers of Africa to tell us what they think Americans would be most surprised to know about the continent today. 1. Moria in Lord of the Rings isn’t just a fantastical place  My undergraduate students are always shocked to find out that the indie rock musician Dave Matthews was born and raised in South Africa. They have no idea that the ESPN reporter, Sal Masekela, is the son of famed South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela. While these students are media-savvy, tech-savvy and by no means isolated, they, like much of America, are surprised to learn about the African roots of many American cultural phenomena. Let’s take the case of J.R.R. Tolkien, born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Some of the famous symbolism in The Lord of the Rings book and movie trilogy come straight out of South African history. Fans of the dwarves will know, for example, that the sun shone down through Moria onto Balin’s tomb &#8211; like the sun streams through the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, South Africa, every Dec. 16 &#8211; onto a slab dedicated to the remembrance of the “day of the vow” when Afrikaners slaughtered Zulu fighters in 1838 at the Battle of Blood River. It’s a centerpiece of Afrikaner history. In The Return of the King, signal beacons, calling for aid, are lit along the mountain tops between Rohan and Gondor – as “freedom fires” were also lit along the hilltops of the Orange Free State by Afrikaner]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">46671</post-id><primary_category>Africa</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://ideas.time.com/category/world/africa/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg 1500w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=240,160 240w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=360,240 360w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=100,66 100w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=200,133 200w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=198,132 198w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=248,165 248w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=297,198 297w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=347,231 347w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=396,264 396w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=446,297 446w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=495,330 495w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=545,363 545w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=594,396 594w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=644,429 644w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=693,462 693w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=743,495 743w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=792,528 792w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=842,561 842w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=891,594 891w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=941,627 941w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=990,660 990w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=1040,693 1040w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=1089,726 1089w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=1139,759 1139w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=1188,792 1188w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=1238,825 1238w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=1287,858 1287w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=1337,891 1337w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=1386,924 1386w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=1436,957 1436w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=1485,990 1485w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=250,167 250w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=720,480 720w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=480,320 480w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=960,640 960w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=165,110 165w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=460,307 460w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=700,467 700w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/africa.jpg?resize=260,173 260w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></post_thumbnail>	</item>
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		<title>5 Things You Should Know About Working Dads</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/03/05/working-dads-5-things-you-should-know/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott Behson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fatherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stay-at-home dads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working dads]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My wife and I both work, but since she is a musical theater actress, sometimes she has to work late, really late. On those days, we get my son up, fed, dressed and ready for school before we go to work. At my job, I put in a full morning, work through lunch at my desk, leave a few hours early while taking work home—all so I can get back in time for the afternoon bus. At home, I help with homework, cook dinner, play light-sabers and Legos, supervise bathtime, cuddle my son and tuck him in. My wife comes home just in time for a good-night kiss. I spend an hour or two working on my laptop and my wife chills out with Downton Abbey before we go to bed. Some days, she’s home earlier; on others, we’re all home for family game night. Each day is a little different. I’m no hero, no “superdad.” I’m just one of the millions of dads who are putting in the work to provide for their families, to balance their careers with their spouses’ and, most importantly, to be a loving, involved father. My work-family juggle is typical, but as a society, we don’t think much about the challenges faced by working fathers. When the media does pay attention to fathers, it tends to focus on the stay-at-home variety. This makes sense, as SAHDs are breaking down barriers as to what society considers a “real man” and are demonstrating that men and women can succeed outside of traditional gender roles—all to the benefit of their families, children and our society. Go SAHDs! (MORE: 5 Myths About Stay-At-Home Dads) But the fact is that most fathers work outside the home. And their main concern—balancing a successful career with the time and energy needed to be a loving, involved father—has received comparatively scant attention. To fill the void, here are five things we should all know about today’s working dad: This generation of fathers works as hard and for as many hours as prior generations.]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">46592</post-id><primary_category>Society</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://ideas.time.com/category/life-style/society/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="Father trying to work while holding baby" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg 1500w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=240,160 240w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=360,240 360w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=100,66 100w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=200,133 200w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=198,132 198w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=248,165 248w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=297,198 297w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=347,231 347w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=396,264 396w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=446,297 446w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=495,330 495w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=545,363 545w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=594,396 594w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=644,429 644w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=693,462 693w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=743,495 743w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=792,528 792w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=842,561 842w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=891,594 891w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=941,627 941w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=990,660 990w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=1040,693 1040w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=1089,726 1089w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=1139,759 1139w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=1188,792 1188w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=1238,825 1238w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=1287,858 1287w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=1337,891 1337w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=1386,924 1386w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=1436,957 1436w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=1485,990 1485w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=250,167 250w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=720,480 720w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=480,320 480w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=960,640 960w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=165,110 165w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=460,307 460w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=700,467 700w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/02/138643644.jpg?resize=260,173 260w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></post_thumbnail>	</item>
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		<title>Lent Is Not Just For Christians</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/03/05/lent-is-not-just-for-christians/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher J. Hale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lent]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today Christians around the world will mark the beginning of Lent with the ancient tradition of receiving ashes on their foreheads. This season and the customs associated with it are as old as the faith itself. It marks a sacred time of conversion for the Christian faithful as they commemorate the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. But the season of Lent is not just for Christians. It offers everyone a time for reflection and an opportunity for change and growth. The very first act of Lent reveals this reality. By receiving and wearing the ashes formed into a sign of the cross on their foreheads, Christians are making the bold claim that lowliness and humility offers the surest way to experience the full joy of humanity. The cross—all too often domesticated by its familiarity—must not be romanticized. It was the instrument of torture used by the Romans to execute Jesus. It would have been unthinkable among Jesus’s contemporaries for anyone to wear publicly such a symbol of shame and humiliation. But for the Christian, the cross of Jesus and his death upon it is the source and summit of life. It reveals who God is and whom God chooses. In the time before Jesus&#8217;s birth, the expectation of the Messiah was very strong in Israel. They expected a hero who would at last set them free from slavery. But Jesus didn’t bring a political liberation, achieved through military campaign. Instead Jesus destroyed death forever and restored life by means of his death on the cross. Christians believe that God chose Jesus, who was born in poverty and obscurity far from the political and cultural centers of power, to redeem the human race. And it must be noted that God did not choose Jesus in spite of his poverty, but because of it. St. Paul says it well: “Jesus was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.” In the person and life of Jesus, the universal possibility of Lent becomes]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">46747</post-id><primary_category>Religion</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://ideas.time.com/category/life-style/religion/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg 1500w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=240,160 240w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=360,240 360w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=100,66 100w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=200,133 200w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=198,132 198w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=248,165 248w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=297,198 297w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=347,231 347w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=396,264 396w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=446,297 446w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=495,330 495w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=545,363 545w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=594,396 594w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=644,429 644w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=693,462 693w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=743,495 743w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=792,528 792w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=842,561 842w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=891,594 891w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=941,627 941w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=990,660 990w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=1040,693 1040w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=1089,726 1089w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=1139,759 1139w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=1188,792 1188w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=1238,825 1238w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=1287,858 1287w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=1337,891 1337w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=1386,924 1386w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=1436,957 1436w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=1485,990 1485w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=250,167 250w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=720,480 720w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=480,320 480w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=960,640 960w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=165,110 165w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=460,307 460w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=700,467 700w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/ash-wednesday.jpg?resize=260,173 260w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></post_thumbnail>	</item>
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		<title>Dear Alec Baldwin: Please Don&#8217;t Move to LA</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/03/05/dear-alec-baldwin-please-dont-move-to-la/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Mathews]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alec Baldwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Alec Baldwin, Let me be the first to welcome you to the great state of California. I know you haven’t arrived yet. But, in a piece published in New York magazine that made headlines across the country, you made it plain that after years of being terrorized by Manhattan’s media and increasingly nosy public, you’re done with living and working in New York City, where you were once so popular that you toyed with running for mayor. Your next destination: Los Angeles, where you believe you can be free to be yourself. “I just can’t live in New York anymore,” you wrote. “Everything I hated about L.A. I’m beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that. But New York has changed.” Your moving to Los Angeles would certainly be good for us. All Californians would benefit from another rich person out here paying those higher Proposition 30 temporary rates on income taxes. And, given your political ambitions, your presence in Los Angeles would also be welcome, if only because it might light a fire under our overly understated new mayor, Eric Garcetti. But I’m concerned that, as much as we’d love to have you, L.A. might not be the best fit for you. You’ve lived in New York since 1979, so it makes sense that you don’t know that this is no longer Annie Hall’s Los Angeles. In fact, L.A. in 2014 is a lot more like New York than we would care to admit. If you are truly looking to retreat from public life, as you say in your piece, L.A. may not be the best place to do it. The city is becoming considerably more dense (particularly on the Westside, where you Hollywood types hang out) and more connected (via new rail and subway lines). L.A.’s economy is less about going off by yourself to write or invent something and much more about constant collaboration]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">46697</post-id><primary_category>U.S.</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://ideas.time.com/category/u-s/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/alec-baldwin-2.jpg?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/alec-baldwin-2.jpg?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="Actor Alec Baldwin shoves a photographer and tells him to move out of his way after he arrived in his SUV at the building where he lives in New York" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/alec-baldwin-2.jpg?resize=100,66 100w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/alec-baldwin-2.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/alec-baldwin-2.jpg?resize=200,133 200w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/alec-baldwin-2.jpg?resize=250,167 250w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/alec-baldwin-2.jpg?resize=360,240 360w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/alec-baldwin-2.jpg?resize=720,480 720w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/alec-baldwin-2.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/alec-baldwin-2.jpg?resize=480,320 480w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/alec-baldwin-2.jpg?resize=960,640 960w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/alec-baldwin-2.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/alec-baldwin-2.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></post_thumbnail>	</item>
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		<title>The Changing Face of Exonerations</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Tuerkheimer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[DNA testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exonerations]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The popular image of exonerations—fueled by any number of movies and TV criminal procedurals—is of a wrongly accused rapist set free after DNA testing reveals the real perpetrator. But as a new report shows, this DNA-centric scenario is becoming increasingly less common in the real world of exonerations. Indeed, while the number of exonerations hit a record high in 2013—87 compared with the previous high of 83—only 18 of these involved DNA evidence. (MORE: Study: Record Number of U.S. Convicts Cleared in 2013) These figures point to a hard truth: For all the understandable weight we give DNA evidence, it is of little if any use for the vast majority of the wrongfully convicted. While DNA remains the focus of exoneration efforts around the country, and all states have passed laws that provide for post-conviction access to testing, experts estimate that only 5% to 10% of all criminal cases involve such evidence. If we are to make meaningful progress towards freeing innocent people now serving time—a population some now place at more than 100,000—we need new laws designed to target miscarriages of justice that lack DNA evidence. Taking such steps is especially critical for women, who make up a fast-growing segment of the nation’s prison population. Women’s alleged crimes of violence—often involving children or romantic partners—do not typically hinge on the whodunit question of identity that DNA is so useful in resolving. To the contrary in such cases, the more common question is whether a crime was even committed, with one salient example being the increasingly discredited diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. (Notably, “no crime” cases comprise another category on the increase, accounting for a whopping 22% of this year’s exonerations.) Happily, recent years have seen the beginnings of a movement to grapple with these issues. In a curious twist, it is Texas—not a state generally associated with progressive criminal justice reform—that is leading the way. Last fall, the state passed the nation’s first law recognizing faulty forensic evidence (aka junk science) as a basis for post-conviction relief. The underlying logic is simple: as science evolves and past scientific]]></description>
		
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		<title>8 Things The World’s Most Successful People All Have in Common</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/03/05/8-things-the-worlds-most-successful-people-all-have-in-common/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Barker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 05:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve posted a lot about the strategies of very successful people: artists, scientists, business leaders… Looking back, what patterns do we see? Busy Busy Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, examines the work habits of over 150 of the greatest writers, artists and scientists. What did they all have in common? A relentless pace of work. Via Daily Rituals: How Artists Work “Sooner or later,” Pritchett writes, “the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.” What did Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer find when he looked at high achievers like LBJ and Robert Moses? 60-65 hour work weeks were not uncommon. Via Managing With Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations: In a study of general managers in industry, John Kotter reported that many of them worked 60 to 65 hours per week–which translates into at least six 10-hour days. The ability and willingness to work grueling hours has characterized many powerful figures… Energy and strength provide many advantages to those seeking to build power. When Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied geniuses for his book Creativity, he realized something fascinating about IQ. No one who changed the world had an IQ under 130 — but the difference between 130 and 170 was negligible. As long as you were past the 130 IQ threshold, it was all about how hard you worked. (More on the work habits of geniuses here.) Just Say No Warren Buffett once said: The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything. And that’s what gives them the time to accomplish so much. In Creativity, Csikszentmihalyi makes note of the number of high achievers who declined his request to be in the book. Why did they say no? They were too busy with their own projects to help him with his. Achievement requires focus. And focus means saying “no” to a lot of distractions. Know What You Are In his classic essay Managing Oneself, Pete Drucker is very clear: ignore your weaknesses and keep improving your strengths. In identifying opportunities for improvement, don’t waste time cultivating skill areas where you]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">46702</post-id><primary_category>Psychology</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://ideas.time.com/category/health-science/psychology/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg 1500w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=240,160 240w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=360,240 360w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=100,66 100w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=200,133 200w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=198,132 198w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=248,165 248w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=297,198 297w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=347,231 347w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=396,264 396w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=446,297 446w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=495,330 495w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=545,363 545w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=594,396 594w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=644,429 644w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=693,462 693w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=743,495 743w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=792,528 792w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=842,561 842w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=891,594 891w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=941,627 941w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=990,660 990w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=1040,693 1040w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=1089,726 1089w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=1139,759 1139w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=1188,792 1188w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=1238,825 1238w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=1287,858 1287w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=1337,891 1337w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=1386,924 1386w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=1436,957 1436w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=1485,990 1485w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=250,167 250w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=720,480 720w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=480,320 480w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=960,640 960w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=165,110 165w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=460,307 460w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=700,467 700w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/hard-workers.jpg?resize=260,173 260w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></post_thumbnail>	</item>
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		<title>Celebrity Relationships Just Can&#8217;t Last</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/03/04/celebrity-relationships-oscars-speeches-cate-blanchett/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Musto]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 20:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Upton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cate Blanchett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celebrities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldie Hawn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Swank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kurt Russell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mia Farrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miley cyrus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paula Patton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robin Thicke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woody Allen]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the Oscars on Sunday night, every time a winner thanked their spouse and the camera caught the said partner looking a little uncomfortable, I started to feel the same way. Was Cate Blanchett’s writer-director husband Andrew Upton simply exuding bashfulness or was he thinking, “I’m so happy for you, honey. I’m outta here”? Worst is when the spouse doesn’t get thanked at all, as the currently single Hilary Swank eventually found out six years ago.  Having tracked celebrities for years, I know full well the perils of creative-arts coupling. The divorce rate in America has been estimated at 40%, but if surveys were to only concentrate on show-business duos, it would surely be closer to 100%. Last week, separation came for singer Robin Thicke and actress Paula Patton — former teen sweethearts who married in 2005 — as gossip sites wondered if Thicke’s bouncy cooperation with Miley Cyrus’ stage antics threw a dirty wrench into the marriage. On Saturday, Patton looked lovely but ringless at the Independent Spirit Awards, while the next night, Thicke sang a plaintive “Let’s Stay Together” in Atlantic City, publicly working out his issues in a glitzy casino. (MORE: &#8216;Blurred Lines&#8217; Singer Robin Thicke Splits With Paula Patton) The Thickes are not alone in their aloneness. Just a few days later, dating singers Katy Perry and John Mayer also split — after two on-again, off-again years — and if it was because either of them kissed a girl and liked it, they’re not saying. Whatever the causes were for these breakups, the fact that they were pretty much bound to happen is as elemental as the reality that a hit movie will beget a (lesser) sequel. So many celebrity pair-ups end in tatters that whenever I hear about a new couple jazzing up the tabloids, my heart breaks for them, knowing that within a few years — or maybe weeks — they’ll be writing bitter songs (and memoirs) about the ex that did them wrong. The central problem is that members of show-business couples are competing in]]></description>
		
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		<title>Forget The Oscar: Jared Leto Was Miscast in Dallas Buyers Club</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/03/04/jared-leto-oscar-dallas-buyers-club-casting-trans-actors/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fallon Fox]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 19:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barkhad Abdi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Atlas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girlfight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared Leto]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I didn’t need to glimpse even a single frame of Dallas Buyers Club to know that casting Jared Leto in the role of a trans woman was just plain wrong. I wasn&#8217;t interested in Leto&#8217;s acting capabilities, the portrayal of the character, or the quality of the film overall. I just couldn&#8217;t understand why another film had been created with a trans character that had no trans actor in that role. Now that he’s taken home the Oscar for best supporting actor for that role, the question matters even more. As a trans woman, I&#8217;ve been watching movies that have major roles with trans characters for years. Film after film, I&#8217;ve sat on my couch or theater seat and wondered to myself why the directors almost never get it right. Why is the main or supporting character played by a cisgender person when they have plenty of other actors in the film that are trans, and giving a stellar performance? Did the investors of the film decide it was too risky? Was it the director who felt that the trans people who auditioned were not good enough? Did the director even audition trans people? I found my answer when I listened with jaw dropped to what director Jean-Marc Vallee had to say on CBC Radio about casting a trans person as the role of Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club. &#8220;Never,” he said. “Is there any transgender actor? To my knowledge &#8212; I don&#8217;t know one. I didn&#8217;t even think about it&#8221;. When the interviewer interjected with, &#8220;Of course there are transgender actors,&#8221; Vallee answered with, &#8220;Which ones? There&#8217;s like five, or three, or what &#8212; two? I never thought of that. I never thought of hiring a real rodeo guy to play the rodeo Ron Woodruff. And just like in every film &#8212; we&#8217;re actors, we&#8217;re directors. I&#8217;m not aiming for the real thing. I&#8217;m aiming for an experienced actor who wants to portray the thing.&#8221; (MORE: Don’t Applaud Jared Leto’s Transgender ‘Mammy’) Vallee’s response makes me wonder if he would]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Jewish Girl’s Love Letter to Loehmann’s</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/03/04/a-jewish-girls-love-letter-to-loehmanns/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Randye Hoder ]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life & Style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jewish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loehmann’s]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Loehmann’s is closed. Last week, the famous discount designer clothing store, shuttered the last of its remaining 39 shops, including one in Los Angeles where I live and four in New York City, where it first opened its doors in a former automobile showroom in 1921. Like legions of other Jewish girls over the decades, I first went to Loehmann’s with my grandmother in what was a generational rite of passage. From her I learned how to navigate mountains of surplus couture, avoid the sharp elbows of fellow shoppers ravenous for a deal and withstand the sea of uncompromising eyes in the communal dressing room, where everyone was more than happy to answer the age-old question: “Does that make my tush look big?” That first time I went to Loehmann’s with my Grandma Fran, and most every time thereafter, my Grandpa Mitch was in tow. No sooner did we walk in then she deposited him like a sack of potatoes with all the other Jewish men sitting against the wall with their wives’ purses perched neatly on their laps. My grandma then took me under her wing as she expertly combed through the endless racks of clothing, cherry-picking this and ruthlessly discarding that. Finally, she held up an Yves Saint Laurent peasant blouse against my chest, grinning in approval at finding such a gem. After the hunt, we headed to the dressing room with dozens of garments to try on. There, countless ladies young and old, in various stages of dress and undress—with their waist-high panties, bullet bras and girdles—were trying on their finds, bragging about nabbing the last Armani skirt in their size. And at 40% off, no less! For the next few hours, we tried on various outfits: me, flat-chested, hiding in a corner; my buxom grandmother easily exchanging opinions with other shoppers about what looked good and what did not. Loehmann’s was not for the faint of heart. There were no saleswomen here trying to persuade you that something was flattering when it wasn’t. Instead, an army of yentas occupied the dressing room, eager to deliver their unvarnished opinions. Indeed, it was in a Loehmann’s dressing]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">46646</post-id><primary_category>Life &amp; Style</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://ideas.time.com/category/life-style/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="Loehmann&#039;s Shoppers In New York City" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg 1500w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=240,160 240w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=360,240 360w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=100,66 100w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=200,133 200w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=198,132 198w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=248,165 248w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=297,198 297w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=347,231 347w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=396,264 396w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=446,297 446w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=495,330 495w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=545,363 545w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=594,396 594w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=644,429 644w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=693,462 693w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=743,495 743w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=792,528 792w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=842,561 842w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=891,594 891w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=941,627 941w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=990,660 990w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=1040,693 1040w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=1089,726 1089w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=1139,759 1139w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=1188,792 1188w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=1238,825 1238w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=1287,858 1287w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=1337,891 1337w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=1386,924 1386w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=1436,957 1436w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=1485,990 1485w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=250,167 250w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=720,480 720w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=480,320 480w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=960,640 960w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=165,110 165w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=460,307 460w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=700,467 700w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/loehmanns.jpg?resize=260,173 260w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></post_thumbnail>	</item>
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		<title>How To Make Your Kids Smarter: 10 Steps Backed By Science</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/03/04/how-to-make-your-kids-smarter-10-steps-backed-by-science/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Barker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve explored the science behind what makes kids happier, what type of parenting works best and what makes for joyful families. But what makes children — from babies up through the teen years — smarter? Here are 10 things science says can help: 1) Music Lessons Plain and simple: research show music lessons make kids smarter: Compared with children in the control groups, children in the music groups exhibited greater increases in full-scale IQ. The effect was relatively small, but it generalized across IQ subtests, index scores, and a standardized measure of academic achievement. In fact musical training helps everyone, young and old: A growing body of research finds musical training gives students learning advantages in the classroom. Now a Northwestern University study finds musical training can benefit Grandma, too, by offsetting some of the deleterious effects of aging. (More on what the music you love says about you here.) 2) The Dumb Jock Is A Myth Dumb jocks are dumb because they spend more time on the field than in the library. But what if you make sure your child devotes time to both? Being in good shape increases your ability to learn. After exercise people pick up new vocabulary words 20% faster. Via Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain: Indeed, in a 2007 study of humans, German researchers found that people learn vocabulary words 20 percent faster following exercise than they did before exercise, and that the rate of learning correlated directly with levels of BDNF. A 3 month exercise regimen increased bloodflow to the part of the brain focused on memory and learning by 30%. Via Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain: In his study, Small put a group of volunteers on a three-month exercise regimen and then took pictures of their brains… What he saw was that the capillary volume in the memory area of the hippocampus increased by 30 percent, a truly remarkable change. (More on how exercise can make you and your kids smarter and happier here.) 3) Don’t Read To Your Kids, Read With Them Got a little one who is learning to]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">46635</post-id><primary_category>Family</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://ideas.time.com/category/life-style/family/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="Young boy writes math equations on chalkboard" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg 1500w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=240,160 240w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=360,240 360w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=100,66 100w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=200,133 200w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=198,132 198w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=248,165 248w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=297,198 297w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=347,231 347w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=396,264 396w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=446,297 446w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=495,330 495w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=545,363 545w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=594,396 594w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=644,429 644w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=693,462 693w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=743,495 743w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=792,528 792w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=842,561 842w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=891,594 891w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=941,627 941w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=990,660 990w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=1040,693 1040w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=1089,726 1089w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=1139,759 1139w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=1188,792 1188w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=1238,825 1238w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=1287,858 1287w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=1337,891 1337w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=1386,924 1386w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=1436,957 1436w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=1485,990 1485w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=250,167 250w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=720,480 720w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=480,320 480w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=960,640 960w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=165,110 165w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=460,307 460w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=700,467 700w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/smart-kids.jpg?resize=260,173 260w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></post_thumbnail>	</item>
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		<title>Dave Barry Learns Everything You Need to Know About Being a Husband From Reading 50 Shades of Grey</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/03/04/dave-barry-learns-everything-you-need-to-know-about-being-a-husband-from-50-shades-of-grey/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Barry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 05:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[So I read Fifty Shades of Grey. This is the book written by female British author “E. L. James” that became a huge bestseller, devoured by pretty much every woman on Earth except my wife (or so she claims). I think I might be the only man who read this book. I did it sneakily, hiding the cover, especially when I was on an airplane, which actually is a good place to read this book because you have access to a barf bag. I say this because of the writing style, which is . . . OK, here’s one tiny sample of the writing style: “Did you give him our address?” “No, but stalking is one of his specialties,” I muse matter-of-factly. Kate’s brow knits further. That’s right: This is the kind of a book where, instead of saying things, characters muse them, and they are somehow able to muse them matter-of-factly. And these matter-of-fact musings cause other characters’ brows—which of course were already knitted—to knit still further. The book is over five hundred pages long and the whole thing is written like that. If Jane Austen (another bestselling female British author) came back to life and read this book, she would kill herself. So why did I read it? I read it because, as a man with decades of experience in the field of not knowing what the hell women are thinking, I was hoping this book would give me some answers. Because a lot of women LOVED this book. And they didn’t just read it; they responded to it by developing erotic feelings—feelings so powerful that in some cases they wanted to have sex with their own husbands. I know that sounds like crazy talk, but I have firsthand confirmation of this phenomenon from my friend Ron, who is married to my wife’s cousin Sonia, a woman. Ron states: “While Sonia was reading the book, I was getting more action than Wilt Chamberlain.” Another friend of mine whose name I will keep confidential out of respect for his privacy[*] told me, “I’d be lying on the]]></description>
		
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		<title>Putin’s Folly, and Our Own</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/03/03/putins-folly-and-our-own/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anatol Lieven]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We’re now witnessing the consequences of how grossly both Russia and the West have overplayed their hands in Ukraine. It is urgently necessary that both should find ways of withdrawing from some of the positions that they have taken. Otherwise, the result could very easily be civil war, Russian invasion, the partition of Ukraine, and a conflict that will haunt Europe for generations to come. The only country that could possibly benefit from such an outcome is China. As with the invasion of Iraq and the horrible mismanagement of the campaign in Afghanistan, the USA would be distracted for another decade from the question of how to deal with its only competitive peer in the world today. Yet given the potentially appalling consequences for the world economy of a war in Ukraine, it is probable that even Beijing would not welcome such an outcome. If there is one absolutely undeniable fact about Ukraine, a fact that screams from every election and every opinion poll since its independence two decades ago, it is that the country’s population is deeply divided between pro-Russian and pro-Western sentiments. Every election victory for one side or another has been by a narrow margin, and has subsequently been reversed by an electoral victory for an opposing coalition. What has saved the country until recently has been the existence of a certain middle ground of Ukrainians sharing elements of both positions; that the division in consequence was not clear cut; and that the West and Russia generally refrained from forcing Ukrainians to make a clear choice between these positions. During George Bush’s second term as president, the United States, Britain, and other NATO countries made a morally criminal attempt to force this choice by the offer of a NATO Membership Action Plan for Ukraine (despite the fact that repeated opinion polls had shown around two-thirds of Ukrainians opposed to NATO membership). French and German opposition delayed this ill-advised gambit, and after August 2008, it was quietly abandoned. The Georgian-Russian war in that month had made clear both]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">46637</post-id><primary_category>Foreign Affairs</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://ideas.time.com/category/world/foreign-affairs/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/koy201403020015.jpg?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/koy201403020015.jpg?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="Members of a pro-Russian group stationed themselves in front of government buildings and a statue of Lenin in Simferopol on Sunday." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/koy201403020015.jpg 4928w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/koy201403020015.jpg?resize=240,160 240w, https://ideas.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/03/koy201403020015.jpg?resize=360,240 360w, 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		<title>A Church-Shaped Hole in Our Lives</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/03/02/a-church-shaped-hole-in-our-lives/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Watson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2014 05:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One common dilemma today is this: Knowing what we now know — from geology, cosmology and evolutionary biology — many people find it just impossible to believe in any kind of supernatural entity. At the same time, however, many atheists regret no longer having the comforts and psychological benefits that stem from religion. This is just as true of highbrow philosophers as it is of the rest of us. Thinkers as varied as Ronald Dworkin, an American, and Jürgen Habermas, a German, have written recently of the need for &#8220;religion without God.&#8221; What they mean is that the churches used to provide, and still do provide for believers, the basis of a moral community, where people can share not just their supernatural beliefs but also very earthly virtues which provide satisfaction and a sense of meaning in lives. This is something almost all of us want — religious or not. The alternatives are limited but by no means nonexistent. One initiative is going strong in Great Britain and Australia and was launched recently in the U.S. It is called Sunday Assembly, and under this scheme, groups of atheists in any one locality meet in a hall (and sometimes in &#8220;off-duty&#8221; churches) for a couple of hours on a Sunday. There is music, songs are sung (pop songs, &#8220;standards,&#8221; not hymns), and there are speeches (definitely not sermons), readings from literature and debate. Usually some modern ethical dilemma is aired, and the various members of the group speak out. The aim of the &#8220;services&#8221; is to be both enjoyable and serious at the same time and to introduce like-minded atheists to others in their area. So far as atheism is concerned, there is the Atheist Book Club, Atheism Unleashed, Anti-Theist and — most relaxed — Atheism TGIF. These groups by no means exhaust what is available. There are national and local organizations of varying sizes, from the American Secular Union to the Atheist Community of Austin to the Humanist Community Project at Harvard, Mass. People lose their faith in a variety]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Was Raised on Spike Lee Joints, But He&#8217;s Doing More Harm Than Good</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/03/01/dax-devlon-ross-on-spike-lee/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dax-Devlon Ross]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2014 05:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[American Cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gentrification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spike Lee]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have a theory about Spike&#8217;s race rant and it starts with the New York Knicks. I know it sounds outrageous but hear me out. After winning their division and making a promising playoff run last year, they&#8217;ve taken two, maybe three giant steps back into laughingstock land. They&#8217;ve been bedeviled by injuries and on the wrong end of more close games than even the law of averages can explain. To make matters worse their starting point guard — arguably the worst one in the league — is facing a gun charge, and their franchise player may very well decide to opt out of his contract this summer. I won&#8217;t even get into the salary and draft situation. Suffice it to say, as bad as the Knicks are now this may only be the beginning. Now, in case you didn&#8217;t know — or didn&#8217;t care to know — Spike Lee is more than just the team&#8217;s number one celebrity fan. How many fans can say they played a starring role in a 30 for 30 film about one of the greatest sports rivalries of the 1990s or participated in the team&#8217;s official free agent recruitment campaign four years ago or was appointed an unofficial ambassador during last year&#8217;s Brooklyn Nets welcome tour. Spike is as much a fixture at Madison Square Garden as Carmelo Anthony and gets more camera time than the Knicks City Dancers, who I hear have been all-but banished. Why is this relevant? Because I have to believe  that the Knicks&#8217; sorry season is the the real reason one of my cultural heroes blew his fuse. It&#8217;s the most plausible explanation I can come up with — so until I hear otherwise I&#8217;m going with it. Let&#8217;s get one thing clear: Everything Spike said is common knowledge in 2014. I&#8217;m part of social media group made up of 20-odd college-educated black men in their 30s and 40s scattered across the United States, and frankly we have deeper conversations about race on a random Wednesday afternoon. This isn&#8217;t]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Satan Dead?</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/02/28/is-satan-dead/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William E. Jefferson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2014 01:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Son of God opened in cinemas across America this weekend, but minus the Bible’s most cunning, controversial and diabolical character. No, Judas Iscariot is in the movie. It’s the evil one himself – known reciprocally as Satan, Lucifer, or the devil –  who has lost his iconic role. Satan’s fall from stardom gives rise to rumor. Where did he go, and why? Can it be there is a more important role to play, an offer more lucrative? Or, has the unimaginable come to pass: Is Satan dead? The film’s executive producers, Roma Downey and her husband, Mark Burnett, are not ducking the swirling questions concerning the villain’s swift departure. Irish-born Downey, who also plays Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the film, recently told USA Today, “It gives me great pleasure to tell you that the devil is on the cutting-room floor. This is now a movie about Jesus, the Son of God, and the Devil gets no more screen time, no more distractions.” Downey’s intent is hardly vague. “I wanted all of the focus to be on Jesus,” she explains, “I want his name to be on the lips of everyone who sees this movie, so we cast Satan out.” So simple, it seems so clear cut. Snip, and Satan is gone. What’s going on in this storytelling world of late? A movie about Jesus, the Son of God, without the archenemy of God—how can this be? Satan, as the Bible story goes, made his cameo appearance in the Garden of Eden, proving himself to be a master of improv and one-liners. It’s hard to envision the full drama of the gospel without him—his absence is such a sizable jump cut in the original story line. It’s not likely, however, that the evil one is still lying about on a cutting-room floor, grieving over his ouster from the Son of God. He’s been around since time began, and he knows how to survive a fall. Satan’s precipitous descent in the Bible is far more dramatic. The words of Jesus Christ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Spike Lee&#8217;s Racism Isn&#8217;t Cute: &#8216;Motherf-cking Hipster&#8217; Is the New &#8216;Honkey&#8217;</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/02/28/spike-lees-racism-isnt-cute-m-f-hipster-is-the-new-honkey/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John McWhorter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gentrification]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s interesting that the director of the richest oeuvre of black films in the history of the medium doesn’t understand what the Civil Rights revolution was for. In his expletive-laced comments about the gentrification of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, during an interview at the Pratt Institute, Spike Lee seemed to think that what we overcame for was to be grouchy bigots. Basically, black people are getting paid more money than they’ve ever seen in their lives for their houses, and a once sketchy neighborhood is now quiet and pleasant. And this is a bad thing … why? Lee seems to think it’s somehow an injustice whenever black people pick up stakes. But I doubt many of the blacks now set to pass fat inheritances on to their kids feel that way. This is not the old story of poor blacks being pushed out of neighborhoods being razed for highway construction. Lee isn’t making sense. “Respect the culture” when you move in, Lee growls. But again, he isn’t making sense. We can be quite sure that if whites “respected” the culture by trying to participate in it, Lee would be one of the first in line to call it “appropriation.” So, no whites better open up barbecue joints or spoken word cafés or try to be rappers. Yet if whites walk on by the culture in “respectful” silence, then the word on the street becomes that they want to keep blacks at a distance. In his interview with Anderson Cooper on Wednesday to clarify, Lee mentioned the controversy in Harlem some years ago over park drumming, which new white residents protested. Lee thinks whites were supposed to put up with being woken up on weekend mornings by the drums. That was a subtle issue. I refer to it in my Western Civilization class as a difficult judgment — the kind that shows that real life offers few easy answers. Lee seems to think it was an open-and-shut case – but then how would he feel if it were whites drumming and blacks]]></description>
		
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Applaud Jared Leto&#8217;s Transgender &#8216;Mammy&#8217;</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/02/28/dont-applaud-jared-letos-transgender-mammy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Friess]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2014 05:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dallas Buyers Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared Leto]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in 1940, when Hattie McDaniel took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Mammy in “Gone With The Wind,” Hollywood was incessantly proud of itself. The Academy indulged in feel-good self-congratulations that night because McDaniel was the first black person to win any of its acting honors. (MORE: Oscars 2014 Prediction: Why Jared Leto Will Win Best Supporting Actor) “It opens the doors of this room, moves back the walls, and enables us to embrace the whole of America, an America that we love, an America that almost alone in the world today recognizes and pays tribute to those who give her their best, regardless of creed, race, or color,” explained the actress Fay Bainter before calling McDaniel up from her segregated table in the back of the Ambassador Hotel ballroom where she sat far from her white co-stars. (PHOTOS: Your Favorite Celebs on the Red Carpet) In the light of more than seven decades, that moment and performance are tainted by our collective understanding of how hypocritical and patronizing it was. McDaniel’s portrayal of a house slave is now, alongside the old Aunt Jemima syrup logos, viewed as an archetypical, racist touchstone. It is difficult to watch McDaniel’s infantilized Mammy without cringing. (MORE: Grantland Transgender Scandal Signals Progress) Now the Academy is on the brink of doing it again for another badly misunderstood minority. Unless virtually every odds maker and show-biz pundit is wrong, the straight actor Jared Leto will on Sunday win the Best Supporting Actor statuette for a portrayal of a transgender woman with AIDS in “Dallas Buyers Club.” Not long from now — it surely won’t take decades, given the brisk pace of progress on matters of identity and sexuality these days — Leto’s award-winning performance as the sassy, tragic-yet-silly Rayon will belong in the dishonorable pantheon along with McDaniel’s Mammy. That is, it’ll be another moment when liberals in Hollywood, both in the industry and in the media, showed how little they understood or empathized with the lives of a minority]]></description>
		
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		<title>My Invisible Life as an AIDS Widow</title>
		<link>https://ideas.time.com/2014/02/27/my-invisible-life-as-an-aids-widow/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maggie Kneip]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I saw the scene in the Oscar-nominated Dallas Buyers Club in which a sad-eyed doctor told the skeletal Ron Woodroof, played by Matthew McConaughey, that he had full-blown AIDS and would die within weeks, I sunk low in my seat and covered my eyes. It’s hard for me to watch movies about AIDS because I lived it, and it remains the stuff of my nightmares. In the summer of 1990, just after my second child was born, I stood in a hospital room beside my febrile, disoriented husband, John—a promising young journalist whose heterosexuality I never doubted—as a doctor handed him the same diagnosis and imminent death sentence. It’s also hard because I never see myself in these movies. There are women doctors, nurses, social workers, coworkers, sisters, friends, prostitutes, and drug addicts—but never anyone like me or all the other HIV-negative wives of men with AIDS with whom I huddled in a Greenwich Village church basement that awful summer 24 years ago. We weren’t just wives in that church. We were mothers of soon-to-be fatherless children, too. Back then, people thought homosexual men got AIDS from unthinkable sex acts in bars and bathhouses. People feared they could catch it from handshakes, toothbrushes, and toilet seats. Imagine their reaction if they heard our husbands, the fathers of our children – guys just down the street – had it. Each week, our unmerry little band drilled down one thing and one thing only: the importance of hiding the truth of what was killing our husbands to protect our young. After our husbands died, which they did quickly back then, we scattered like the four winds, dropping each other – and AIDS – like hot potatoes. At the same time, scores of gay men were in the fight of their lives. I would see them on the evening news, valiant Davids struggling up against powerful government and corporate Goliaths, desperate for help, for a cure for the “plague.” I envied them for their brotherhood, but there didn’t seem room for me, for my]]></description>
		
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