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With the rapid expansion of the faculty under Kagan’s tenure some of these barriers began to disappear. As the number of appointments increased, faculty no longer feared that positions would not be available for professors with similar methodologies and ideologies...
Does that mean income inequality in the U.S. is about to disappear? Probably not. In fact, over the past few decades it has accelerated - although a single generation is something of a blip for social scientists who are used to dealing with millennia. (See 10 big recession surprises...
...join the battle that could change the power balance. Not only are more expats finding Mexico's climate and low costs welcoming, but investors are flocking to Mexico as a growth market for health care and senior living. "Many in the baby-boomer generation have seen their retirement savings disappear and it is not likely those funds will be built back up quickly," Crist says, explaining why Mexico, with its low costs, has become attractive. Seeing potential profits, he adds, "the developers and operators of senior housing, which runs the spectrum from independent-living communities through nursing-care facilities...
...well there, though one factor may be that it looks out on a water view that's calmer and more predictable than a cityscape. The Wyly is also a very flexible cavity, with movable banks of seats and balconies that can slide in and out or fly up and disappear. Even the proscenium can be raised and lowered. The idea here is that theater has ancient roots and a completely unpredictable future...
...Mercedes Sosa, the Argentine crooner dubbed "the voice of the voiceless," was arrested along with 200 of her fans during a concert in La Plata. Sosa's crime was singing out against the brutal military regime that was ruling Argentina with violence and terror and making political dissidents disappear. Were it not for her voice, Sosa would probably have vanished too. Instead, she was released and told never to return to the country. "I had no place to sing," she later recalled. "So I had to go look for applause in Europe...