Word: america
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Purdy has gained national media attention since his book, For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today, was released earlier this year. And now, despite his unassuming manner, the 24-year-old Yale Law student has emerged as a role model for many...
...Tales" could put forth a green and growing shoot like the Harry books--a branch that can serve as a broomstick to bear us "lands away" and, better still, worlds within. Congratulations, J.K. Rowling, on constructing a real, working transPotter! ANDRE NORTON, GRAND MASTER Science Fiction Writers of America Murfreesboro, Tenn...
Good communication and that spirit of compromise have helped keep Meera's family close. That's not always the case in modern multicultural America, says sociology professor Schlesinger. The tragic irony is that many immigrants come to the U.S. in search of a better life for their children and grandchildren. But in order to achieve the goal set by their elders, the younger generation must assimilate, and when they do, they become strangers who speak a different language and live by an alien code. "The grandparent has achieved his American Dream," says Schlesinger, "but at a terrible cost." Exacerbating...
LOOK WHAT WE HAVE HERE According to a study released last week by the Safe America Foundation, 53% of teenagers said they had at one time or another come across websites containing pornographic, hate-based or violent material. More disturbing, 91% of them said they had unwittingly found the material while conducting research for school or just surfing the Web. Parents say they monitor this, but kids...
...plan that Gore unveiled in early September--more limited than Bradley's--focuses on the elderly and children and attempts to cover no more than a third of America's 45 million uninsured. Behind Gore's plan is the recognition that in the special-interest thicket that is health care, you can make progress only by working to get coverage for one or two constituencies at a time. By contrast, Bradley's goals are nearly as grand as Hillary's: to impose unenforceable "mandates" on parents to provide their children with insurance; to expand Medicare benefits; and to offer subsidies...