Attacks against homeless people. “With economic troubles pushing more people onto the streets in the last few years, law enforcement officials and researchers are seeing a surge in unprovoked attacks against the homeless, and a number of states are considering legislation to treat such assaults as hate crimes.”
Afghanistan. “In the first ever unauthorized dispatch from an officer on the frontline, one young [British] Captain offers a brutally honest account of life in Afghanistan, revealing the pain of losing comrades, the frustration at the lack of equipment, and the sense that the conflict seems unending and, at times, unwinnable.”
Iran. “Iran's police chief admitted yesterday that protesters who were arrested after June's disputed presidential election had been tortured while in custody in a prison in southwest Tehran. But he denied that any of the detainees had died as a result.”
Quote of the day. "My best guess is that increasingly in these rich countries, the benefits of greater development are flowing more to women. Women have more education, and because they have more education and skills they probably find it easier to take a year off and have a baby and pay for the additional costs, and then get back into the labor force." Shripad Tuljapurkar, a biology and population studies professor at Stanford University, on new research that economic prosperity may not be linked to an inexorable decline in fertility. (Washington Post)
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