var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/09/are-pizza-and-soda-price-elastic/’,size:‘large’} A team from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seems to think so:
U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults’ calorie intake enough to lower their average weight by 5 pounds (2 kg) per year.
The researchers, writing […]
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Are Pizza and Soda Elastic?
March 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, China, Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Education, Health, Law, Politics, Science
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Marriage — Brain or Heart?
March 3rd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Egypt, Feminism, India, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/03/marriage-brain-or-heart/’,size:‘large’} Ninth in an ongoing series of essays
BANGALORE, India — While I was traveling to the Silicon Valley of the East in December 2006 with my Suffolk University M.B.A. class in Boston to study business there for a week, I popped into a local tourist trap to look at some […]
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Journalism is a Business
February 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Boston, Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Humor, Journalism, Marketing, Media, Personal, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/28/journalism-is-a-business/’,size:‘large’} Media Matters for America, a liberal, media-watchdog organization, reflects on how Fox News covered the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:
On the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Fox & Friends purported to analyze the results of the bill […]
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Redundant, Oppressed Men
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Britain, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Europe, Feminism, Health, Israel, Law, Marketing, Media, Politics, The Middle East
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JERUSALEM — The first of a five-part British documentary on the state of men and manliness in modern, Western society:
Men and masculinity are being marginalised. Manly virtues are laughed at, even considered dysfunctional. Men are being edged out of the family, the workplace and wider society as […]
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Advertising or Porn?
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Education, Europe, Journalism, Marketing, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/advertising-or-porn/’,size:‘large’} A new French advertisement aimed at stopping teenagers from smoking is drawing some controversial marketing buzz:
A new French antismoking advertisement aimed at the young that plays off a pornographic stereotype has gotten more attention than even its creators intended, and critics suggest that it offends common decency […]
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Divided Jerusalem
February 22nd, 2010 · 9 Comments · Boston, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Massachusetts, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/22/divided-jerusalem/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — An city government official recently made an announcement that is realistically true in terms of Middle East peace:
Yakir Segev, who holds the East Jerusalem portfolio in the Jerusalem municipality, made an uncharacteristic remark on Friday, declaring that the Palestinian neighborhood east of the separation fence were “no […]
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Unemployed Men
February 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Entertainment, Feminism, Israel, Media, Palestine, Personal, Politics, The Middle East, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/19/unemployed-men-2/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — The Atlantic Monthly looks at the political and cultural consequences of the recession that pervades the Western world, and here is an enlightening excerpt:
In her classic sociology of the Depression, The Unemployed Man and His Family, Mirra Komarovsky vividly describes how joblessness strained—and in […]
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Women of the Wall
February 16th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Feminism, Israel, Judaism, Law, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/16/women-of-the-wall/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews verbally assaulted a group of women praying at the Western Wall, called them “Nazis,” and blamed them for the Holocaust.
It’s just another example of the insanity that pervades extremist groups in the Middle East. The group, members of Women of the Wall […]
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TSA Insanity">TSA Insanity
February 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Islam, Israel, Law, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/15/tsa-insanity/’,size:‘large’} Stories like this make me grateful for the security measures taken by El Al, Israel’s main airline:
Ryan was taking his first flight, to Walt Disney World, for his fourth birthday.
The boy is developmentally delayed, one of the effects of being born 16 weeks prematurely. His ankles are […]
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Olympic Figure-Skaters
February 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Culture, Immigration, Israel, Judaism, Politics, Russia, Sports
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/15/olympic-figure-skaters/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Israel is not quite a “Cool Runnings.” But the country does have a noteworthy pair of figure-skaters — who, perhaps appropriately, immigrated from Russia when they were children:
The Olympic Committee of Israel announced yesterday that the sibling ice dancing pair of Roman and Alexandra Zaretsky would […]
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Racism and Outsiders
February 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Anti-Semitism, Boston, Civil Liberties, Culture, Education, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/11/racism-and-outsiders/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Forecast Highs, written by the news editor of the Jerusalem Post, notes the results of a recent poll on racism towards Jews:
In the predominantly Muslim nations surveyed, views of Jews were overwhelmingly unfavorable. Nearly all in Jordan (97 percent), the Palestinian territories (97%) and Egypt […]
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West-Bank Settlements
February 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/09/west-bank-settlements-2/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Hillel Halkin makes a not-so-modest proposal for peace in the Middle East:
There is one obvious solution for Israel’s West Bank settlements that has been all but completely overlooked: Let the settlers continue living where they are, but in the state of Palestine.
As a conception, it’s […]
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In the West Bank
February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Bible, Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Israel, Judaism, Law, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/03/in-the-west-bank/’,size:‘large’} MA’ALE ADUMIM, the West Bank — So I was driving with a friend from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv a few months ago, and we came to a security checkpoint after twenty minutes. It was then that I realized that we were taking a path different from the one used […]
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Faked Moon-Landing
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Entertainment, Marketing, Media, Politics, Russia, Science, War
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/01/faked-moon-landing/’,size:‘large’} Here is the most-bizarre post you’ll read today: Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” is evidence that the moon-landing in 1969 was faked.
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Book Review: 1948 — The First Arab-Israeli War
January 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Book Reviews, Books, Britain, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Egypt, Europe, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/24/book-review-1948-the-first-arab-israeli-war/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Benny Morris, a professor of history in the Middle-East Studies Department at Ben-Gurion University, is something of an enigma. Himself born in Israel in 1948, the year of the re-founding of the country and the resulting war with neighboring Arab states, Morris is the leading figure in […]
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