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...visit to the local Social Security office, where I had to sign an affidavit attesting, "I am indeed alive and well . . ." As it turned out, I had fallen victim to the single most common credit-record error: cross-merged files. In such cases, which according to Williams afflict as many as one of every eight credit consumers, people with similar names or addresses have their credit histories mixed together. Often this occurs when a John Doe Sr. and Jr. live at the same address. Another common variation on the theme occurs when the credit histories of ex-spouses remain linked...
...Genetic Fallacy. As Moisi observed, fearful people do not always recognize reality. In the German case, concern is based on the assumption that aggression and fascism are in some way the result of genetic defects that particularly afflict Germans. If not in the genes, another line of thinking holds, perhaps the evil is rooted in national character. Neither notion is scientifically valid. "You can't talk about something genetically wrong with the German people," says Moshe Zimmerman, professor of German history at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. "All the characteristics attributed to Germans may be found in Swiss, Americans and others...
Social worker Dale Trahan, a Chicago expert, believes pop Satanism, often inspired by heavy-metal music or games like Dungeons & Dragons, sometimes leads youths into the real thing. He notes that cults play upon the feelings of powerlessness that afflict millions of teens. Thus therapy seeks to improve social skills and build self-esteem...
Amid the gravest labor shortage to afflict Japan in 15 years, the Diet has taken a step that could deepen the dearth. In a vote that critics attacked as a sign of Japanese insularity, legislators approved a crackdown on companies that employ any of the more than 100,000 unskilled illegal aliens from Bangladesh, the Philippines and other Asian nations who live in Japan. Under the measure, which contains no amnesty provision for illegal aliens who now hold jobs, firms caught hiring illegal foreign workers will be fined as much as $14,000. Employers who persist in the practice could...
...that their job has changed dramatically over the past 25 years. Increasingly, they are asked not only to provide a good education but also to address ever more complex and diverse social problems. Drugs, sex, violence, broken homes, poverty: today's classroom is a mirror of the crises that afflict the U.S. as a whole. Even the children of two-earner, middle-class couples can suffer from lack of attention, if only because neither Mom nor Dad has the time or energy to help with homework or attend PTA meetings...