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Misconceptions abound about the nature and number of the American unemployed. Rates of joblessness vary widely. While 6% of white adult males are currently without work, 12.7% of adult black men are looking for jobs. Some 15.6% of white teen-agers are in the ranks of the jobless, but a stunning 36.6% of black teen-agers can find no work. While thousands of workers go several years without finding regular full employment, the average length of joblessness is still only twelve weeks...
Even routine activities like brushing teeth or reflex actions like sneezing and coughing can knock the back out of whack. The horror stories abound. In Alexandria, Va., Anne Moffett, 37, a mother of three, found herself stricken while bending over to make a bed: "Minutes passed, but I was too terrified to straighten up, even to withdraw my hands from the covers. Finally my mother came and coaxed me, inch by painful inch, into...
...Discords abound as Carter meets the West's leaders in Venice...
Horror stories about teaching abound. In Oregon a kindergarten teacher who had been given As and Bs at Portland State University was recently found to be functionally illiterate. How could this be? Says Acting Dean of the School of Education Harold Jorgensen: "It was a whole series of people not looking closely...
...Ironies abound. Neither war nor peace prevails, and although both the military occupation and the colonial system clearly are coming to their ends, only military and colonial rigidities allow life on the island to function at all. The cynical attitudes of otherwise good men come glaringly into view...