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...grow skeptical of the notion that anything can be rationally known and justify beliefs by what feels right. At levels five and six (ages 22 to 25), represented by the graduate student, they see reality as a matter of interpretation, with knowledge entirely subjective. The highest level concedes personal bias but assumes that inquiry can cut through to approximations of reality -- for example, accepting the preponderant physical evidence of evolution while not necessarily denying the more abstract claims of creation...
...whether there is noticeable animosity towards the Harvard presence in the Philippines, the HIID researchers said they detected none. However, Thomas notes, a few Filipinos have accused the advisors of an American bias...
...That number, which is not all inclusive, has increased from 99 in 1980 to 276 last year, according to the Justice , Department's community-relations service. Depending on how "racist attacks" are defined, other listings go much higher. In New York City alone, the police department's bias-incident investigating unit reported that such occurrences increased from about four a week to ten a week in just the past month...
...racism goes far beyond specific incidents of violence and overt bias. It underlies the persistent and worsening economic gap between blacks and whites. Blacks' median income was 62% of whites' median income in 1975 and 56% by 1985, according to a report on The State of Black America by the National Urban League. Unemployment among black youths has increased from nearly 25% in 1960 to nearly 40% in 1985. At the same time, according to a 1985 survey, less than 1% of the senior executives at the major companies in the FORTUNE 500 were blacks. In one poll of black...
MOST SADDENING Two days after being drafted No. 1 by the Celtics -- his "dream within a dream" -- Maryland Basketball Star Len Bias died in a rush of cocaine. Academic deficiencies came out then, and Coach Lefty Driesell resigned...