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...class is single parents, according to M.I.T.'s Thurow. Unwed mothers and divorcees from middle-income families often slide into the lower class when they try to get by on their own. Reason: they may have the double burden of child custody and a lack of marketable job skills. Carol Kuypers, 32, of Harper Woods in suburban Detroit, earns $13,500 as an accounting clerk, or about 61 cents a week over the limit for getting federal food assistance. The unmarried mother of a 15-month-old son, she has to spend $200 a month for day care, which eats...
Associate Professor of Education Carol Gilligan, who specializes in adolescent development, is the fourth junior faculty member to be granted tenure at the Ed School in eight months. Gilligan, who is on leave, could not be reached for comment on whether she will accept the offer...
...rolled a couple frames, and we cheered for each other; and it didn't seem to matter what scores we got. Carol kept yelling and laughing and telling us what wonderful bowlers we were, and we began to believe her. We concentrated harder. We rolled the ball harder. And each time, Carol screamed. And we screamed...
...Soon, Carol decided to bless us. She would give us luck by rubbing her hand over ours. She rubbed her hand on mine, and I stepped to the line and rolled. Strike. The next frame, she did it again. I rolled. Strike. And on the next frame, too, the same result. Strike. When I came back after my third strike, she smiled broadly, and nodded as if she had known all along I was going to make three straight strikes...
...received her blessing--her luck--and again I stepped to the line. I rolled. The ball tumbled down the center of the lane, broke a little to the left and smashed against the pins. The pins toppled over--save one. It wobbled but stayed standing. I turned to Carol. "That's all right," she said...