The restaurant -- which serves healthy, locally sourced meals -- is staffed by former convicts and prostitutes and victims of domestic violence, human trafficking and other societal or physical challenges.
Certainly the former can lead to spiraling health costs and ever increasing demand on government resources at the expense of other societal goals (i.e., education, defense, etc).
On a societal level, former research clearly indicated that social influences and cultural attitudes have an effect on sexual behavior among adolescents (2, 8, 14).
Ex-Wikileaks volunteers Herbert Snorasson and Smári McCarthy talked of societal cybernetics; former-CIA agent Ray McGovern took to the stage wearing a "ARREST BUSH & OBAMA" t-shirt; and of course there was Vinay Gupta, who announced "we're fighting for free software running on top of hardware that was manufactured by slaves".
Other differences are societal.
According to several friends and former employees, Mr. Thiel ponders major societal and economic issues and then identifies the contrarian strands.
Dr. Ashford is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former chair of its Section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering.
Former studies have also noted the potential societal and health consequences resulting from the ever-widening socioeconomic disparities [ 1, 19].
The objective of this study was to assess differences in the utilisation of medical services and in direct and indirect costs from a societal perspective among current, occasional, former and never smokers using a population-based sample.
While I am not a veil advocate, I made The Colors of Veil, a short documentary on Kimberly King, former US soldier who embraced Islam, rose above societal discrimination to eventually transform her community through her interfaith work.
