- David Brooks seizes on Sandra Bullock’s career success and marital heartbreak as the occasion for issuing another earth-shattering Brooksian moral: Money won’t make you happy. [ New York Times ]
-The Moscow subway bombing that killed 39 people Monday morning draws attention to female suicide bombers, their motivations, and their
formal role in Chechen rebels’ terror campaigns
.
Tracy Clark-Flory in
Salon
recalls researcher
Lindsay O’Rourke’s finding
that, contrary to popular belief, women commit suicide bombings for the same reasons men do. [
Salon
,
The Daily Beast
,
New York Times
]
-The health care reform bill for the first time
bans insurance companies from discriminating against women
. Previously, insurance companies legally charged women higher premiums just for being female, even for policies that didn’t cover maternity. [
New York Times
]
-Could
latchkey parenting actually be good for your kid
? [
Babble
]
