In Brief
News and notes.
Tipping Woes
Americans like to tip, offering extra cash to everyone from service station attendants to home health care aides. But for some workers, like restaurant wait … Read MoreHunger Games As Role Model
Corey FieldsThe current popularity of the trilogy Hunger Games may offer teens a model of female leadership, according to … Read MoreBoys Will Stay Boys
Sam Grinberg“Picture this: your 7-year-old daughter comes home from school in tears. You ask her what’s wrong and she … Read MoreNo Laughing Matter
In her 2013 book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg encouraged women to scale the corporate ladder. Yet women … Read MoreThe Marriage Diet
Corey FieldsGetting married may lead to weight gain—and not just because of that extra piece of wedding cake. Newlyweds’ … Read MoreLittle Free Libraries
RJL20“Little free libraries” are popping up in front of houses, apartments, parks and other public spaces across the country. Read MoreThe Terrorist Next Door
Media depictions of terrorists exaggerate the distance between “us” and “them.”Last August, when the cover of Rolling Stone pictured … Read MoreThe Lone Wolf Terrorist
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnev, the brothers who are suspected of detonating two bombs during the Boston Marathon last year, killing three individuals and injuring countless … Read MoreThe New Workplayce
Corey FieldsDoes all work and no play really make Jack a dull boy? In a 2006 TED talk, education … Read MoreFashioning Flawlessness
Amanda LanzoneDuring New York’s Fashion Week last September, patients of plastic surgeon Ramtin Kassir sashayed down the runway to … Read More