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North Korea Unlikely To Give Up Nuclear Arms, Outgoing British Ambassador Says -- The Telegraph
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That was where the jobs would be: nurse's aides, companions to infirm seniors, hospital orderlies. The group bandied about ideas for how to channel job-seeking men into this growth industry. A need in one area filling a need in another. Interlocking problems, interlocking solutions. The Holy Grail of systemic change.
But Obama shook his head.
"Look, these are guys," he said. "A lot of them see health care, being nurse's aides, as women's work. They need to do something that fits with how they define themselves as men." ...
As the room chewed over the non-PC phrase "women's work," trying to square the senator's point with their analytical models, [Alan] Krueger—who was chief economist at the Department of Labor in the mid-1990s at the tender age of thirty-four—sat there silently, thinking that in all his years of studying men and muscle, he had never used that term. But Obama was right. Krueger wondered how his latest research on happiness and well-being might take into account what Obama had put his finger on: that work is identity, that men like to build, to have something to show for their sweat and toil.
"Infrastructure," he blurted out. "Rebuilding infrastructure."
Obama nodded and smiled, seeing it instantly. "Now we're talking. . . . Okay, let's think [...]
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Defense Intelligence Agency Celebrates 50-Year Legacy -- US Department of Defense
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| Hosni Mubarak on trial. |
"The biggest loss is the loss of the man I married," April Marcum said, describing her husband now as disconnected on the best days, violent on the worst ones. Sarah Beth Glicksteen for The New York Times
Photo: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. (Reuters)
• Feeling good. Seeking pleasurable emotions and sensations, from the hedonistic model of happiness put forth by Epicurus, which focused on reaching happiness by maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain.
• Engaging fully. Pursuing activities that engage you fully, from the influential research by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. For decades, Csikszentmihalyi explored people's satisfaction in their everyday activities, finding people report the greatest satisfaction when they are totally immersed in and concentrating on what they are doing — he dubbed this state of absorption "flow."
• Doing good. Searching for meaning outside yourself, tracing back to Aristotle's notion of eudaemonia, which emphasized knowing your true self and acting in accordance with your virtues.
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British Army Will Never Again Be Among Military Superpowers, Report Claims -- The Guardian
Boost UK Defence Spending Or Lose The Falklands, Warn Military Grandees -- The Guardian
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