Apple—a teenage brat or superhero?

Deirdre Mulligan quoted in San Jose Mercury News, Feb. 21, 2016

The global implication of this case is that “our devices will be built in a way that allows evidence gathering,” said Deirdre Mulligan. … “Once we introduce vulnerability into the network, it can make different sorts of attacks possible.”

California backs off easing standard for inmate firefighters

Franklin Zimring cited in The Washington Post, Feb. 20, 2016

Expanding inmates’ eligibility would have been a calculated risk, said University of California, Berkeley, law professor Frank Zimring, who has studied California prisons for more than 30 years. He warned that recruiting in jails may be tougher because many prisoners there have shorter sentences and may have active drug or mental health problems.

Is CDC’s alcohol warning paternalistic? Why some women think so

Melissa Murray quoted in Medical Xpress, Feb. 19, 2016

The report fails to take into account that pregnancy is not something every woman wants. “There are maybe lots of women who want to be pregnant,” says Murray, “but there are also women who have no interest in being pregnant, don’t want to be mothers, or at least don’t want to be mothers through pregnancy.”

New nonprofit aims to push for social mobility, educational equity

Christopher Edley quoted in The Washington Post, Feb. 17, 2016

“There are tremendous advantages to putting together an effort that looks across the entire range of education issues from early childhood all the way to early career,” Edley said. It helps with coordinating and integrating policies that affect different parts of children’s lives, he said, and it helps with building coalitions that can get work done.