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...forget who exactly had thought the idea up, but I remember, after a brief and excited discussion, pinning a printout U.S. map to the wall, with a thin pencil line charting a bus route from East Coast to West. Going cross-country by Grey-hound, I thought, would be something: distance I could feel. More pressingly, my free moments were ticking away. Summers were starting to disappear, and in the not so distant future I’d have to get a job that, unless I became a teacher like my parents, would involve a sprinkled dribble of vacation days...
...level of benefits that people want the government to provide, particularly for older Americans, and the amount of resources that people want to send to Washington to pay for those benefits," Elmendorf says. "To make the fiscal policies sustainable will require some resolution of that fundamental disconnect." (See a brief history of the U.S. deficit...
...full list for "A Brief History of Baby-Lifts...
...which the Haitian catastrophe is not just normal but inevitable, that in fact a large part of the world is immiserated and stripped of resources to sustain certain lives of privilege,” said Diaz, a Dominican writer catapulted to fame by his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar...
...lines from Doughboy in the 1991 blockbuster movie, “Boyz n the Hood.” For everyone reading this who “don’t know” what’s going on in the inner city school system, what follows is a brief glimpse of the situation based on visits to 8,500 middle school children in five major American cities. The experiences related here demonstrate that no matter how bad you believe the conditions are in inner-city schools…they are far worse...