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Yesterday was the 27th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Hutchins noted. She addressed the frequent comparison of the gay, lesbian and bisexual rights movement with the movement for racial equality...
Some supporters of this atomization of federal oversight forecast a slew of new innovations from the workings of 50 separate governments. But these innovations would doubtlessly be superficial, indigenous to their states of origin. Republicans also tout the agility of smaller state bureaucracies in reacting to societal shifts, in comparison to the purportedly unwieldy federal system...
Others draw a more stinging comparison. "They are terrorists," says Gary R. Perlstein, a terrorism expert at Portland State University in Oregon. "They believe killing is for fear, to intimidate, to terrorize. There's really no difference between these Fundamentalist Christians in the militant antiabortion movement and Muslim fundamentalists in Hamas...
...most attractive to firms. In recessions those with high levels of human capital are among the last laid off. They typically face the lowest unemployment rates and receive the highest wages. They are also beneficiaries of the highest growth rates in wages. Life for low-skilled workers, in comparison, will become increasingly precarious over time. In a future global economy where (among other things) a billion Chinese willing to do the same work for less than half the wage will flow into the labor market, living among the highly skilled will be the safest place for most Americans...
...Argentina, Australia and Sweden, that have graying populations and overburdened pension plans. The enforced savings and investment features of the new system are already credited with one remarkable outcome: the net worth of the average Chilean--$21,000--is almost four times the worker's average annual salary. By comparison, the average American has a net worth just about equal to the average U.S. salary...