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As people and communities use such tools, more and better ones will be created, and developers will start mashing data together, enabling us to see, for example, the relationship between people’s exercise habits and local health statistics.
The government has other tools at its disposal, besides education, for affecting people’s eating habits.
And to some, sometimes, it was: the hedonism of gay life in Amsterdam or San Francisco, the sexual habits in some hippie communes and the almost feudal erotic privileges of rock stars.
Japan’s New Model Political LeadershipAMSTERDAM – Amid the horrifying news from Japan, the establishment of new standards of political leadership there is easy to miss – in part because the Japanese media follow old habits of automatically criticizing how officials are dealing with the calamity, and many foreign reporters who lack perspective simply copy that critical tone.
Loving America’s DeficitsWith the weak dollar hanging like the sword of Damocles over the global economy, almost everyone laments America’s spendthrift habits.
Their argument is that the Russian state, as now constituted, lacks any real incentive to reform its own – or Russians’ – bad economic habits.
As this trend continues in the coming months, households will soon realize that their living standards are falling, and they will have to adjust their spending habits.
All of these presidents’ legacies were tarnished not by any single act – which might very well have looked “effective” at the time – but by habits of corruption and a disregard for ethical guidelines.
The voices from the Climate Parliament join a growing crescendo of influential actors who are speaking out about the need to clean up our energy habits.
Similarly, civil-society organizations must build robust advocacy and education programs that work with local communities to change unhealthy eating habits, emphasize the critical importance of exclusive breast feeding in the first six months, and explain the link between lifestyle, diet, and exercise in preventing disease.
The real problem is that revitalizing the Franco-German alliance must be based on a pro-European agenda, rather than each simply sticking to bad national habits.
Old habits of breaching contracts opportunistically have also survived in places, reinforcing the inherited stereotypes.
The Bush administration’s habits of falsehood have undone its aggressive proclivities, leaving a gaping vacuum.
ASEAN countries maintained the cooperative habits that had become established in Southeast Asia in the 1970s and 1980s.
Even if the world discovered a cheap, clean energy source next week, it would take time for it to kick its fossil fuel-powered habits and shift to a carbon-free future.
Just as we discarded nuclear missiles, some inherited habits of mind also need to be discarded.
A forlorn job application on a large signpost reads, “Nice girl, gentle without bad habits, will sell cement.”
The new administration’s stance will thus be critical: Turkey has much to gain by supporting a solution in Cyprus; but it could also revert to old habits and spoil today’s unique opportunity.
A reversion to old habits is particularly risky, because there is no guarantee that oil prices will continue to climb, or even remain stable at their current levels.
Our past has built up layer upon layer of instincts, propensities, habits of thought, patterns of interaction, and material resources.
While the new EU’s governance structure seems, at least on paper, to lend itself to more robust efforts in the Balkans, diplomatic habits die hard, and the Union will need to overcome its continuing legacy of relying on carrots without sticks to deal with knotty Balkan problems.
Fortunately, the awakening of Russian society, the geographic broadening of political opposition, and the advent of a new generation unshackled by Soviet habits of mind and behavior has given the country an opportunity for genuine democratic reform that 12 years of Putinism had seemed to bury.
One way to achieve this would be to establish scoring systems created by and for women; surveys could include questions about legal frameworks, engagement in urban planning decision-making, public transportation habits, and views on housing, recreation, and safety.
Some of these can be learned or cultivated, and courses that teach positive mental habits – like appreciating things that matter or avoiding dwelling on setbacks – have demonstrated measurable improvements in wellbeing.
The key to victory is the manipulation of public opinion, and that is achieved most effectively by appealing to the “mental clichés and emotional habits of the public.”
Historically, in most societies, obesity implied wealth and health – expensive epicurean habits and no tuberculosis, cholera, or other wasting illnesses.
But the current technological revolution is not just reshaping what we produce and how we produce it; it is fundamentally reshaping who we are – our habits, interests, and worldviews.
It is not too late to change course, but doing so will require the United States and governments in Europe to resist harmful habits, and emerging countries to follow up effectively on recent initiatives.
These populists promise solutions that dispense with the habits and norms of moderation, notably with centrist democratic policies and an internationalism that seeks to promote peace and prosperity.
“Experience ... shows,” Ricardo wrote,“that the fancied or real insecurity of capital, when not under the immediate control of its owner, together with the natural disinclination which every man has to quit the country of his birth and connexions, and intrust himself, with all his habits fixed, to a strange government and new laws, check the emigration of capital.
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