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...George Mason University: "Racial discrimination is as pervasive as oxygen, but it doesn't explain very much in itself. Greater focus needs to be placed on the rules of the game." Among the rules of the game that foster black joblessness, he argues, is the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires federal contractors to pay high union wages to semiskilled black construction workers. Since the productivity of these men as a group is lower overall than that of full-fledged union members, claims Williams, employers have no incentive to hire them. He also points to occupational Licensing requirements that...
...everyday into the stuff of folk legend, and letting the stories flow through melodies that seem to have been tapped from some deep Celtic wellspring. The music, fresh, strong and startling, has ancient reverberations and contemporary overtones. Each song has the clenched power and pitiless clarity of a Francis Bacon painting...
...instead was the image of Phyllis Schlafly as defender of the traditional values, defender of the home. No matter that all the sociologists and all the statisticians and all the activists said Ozzie and Harriet were gone for good, that the conventional nuclear family, with Dad bringing home the bacon and Mom cooking it for him and the kids, survived in only 28% of American homes. The divorce rate almost doubled in the past decade, and the percentage of people living alone rose from 5.3% to 8.3%. Still, that family with the bacon is for many Americans not just...
...less smoked, pickled and salt-cured foods, including sausages, smoked fish and bacon. In Japan, China and Iceland, where such foods are frequently consumed, there is a higher incidence of cancers of the stomach and esophagus. These foods also tend to contain nitrosamines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, chemicals known to cause cancer in animals...
...Pigs really know how to live. That's why I started drawing them instead of people." Another successful volume is The Pig-Out Diet Book, published (at $2.95) by the Bacon Printing Co. and written by two New England doctors, Bernhoff Dahl and David Fingard. The book prescribes a regimen of no breakfast, no lunch, but a "pig out" dinner; it has sold some 16,000 copies...