Word: duals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact stands that we have never lost to B.C. in an indoor dual meet, and we're going to remind them of that fact this Saturday," he said. "They're histori cally mediocre, and we'd like to start the season by blowing them...
...seemed like the point of childhood? Hah! Researchers at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research compiled the 1997 time diaries of 3,586 children nationwide, ages 12 and under. The participants came from virtually every ethnic background and all kinds of households--rich, poor, single parent, dual income. But funnily enough, they all sounded a little like Steven...
...Children are affected by the same time crunch that affects their parents," says Sandra Hofferth, the sociologist who headed the study. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both dual-income and "male breadwinner" households spent comparable amounts of time interacting with their parents, 19 hours and 22 hours respectively. In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with their single mothers...
...suspect the number is sizable. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, author of Sweeter the Juice, a book about relatives who passed as white, says she has received 40,000 letters from people affected by passing. "We have to rethink what these racial boxes mean," she says. While blacks have long acknowledged dual bloodlines, more whites are now embracing such revelations. In January, Jillian Simms, 29, will publish a history of her great-grandmother, who was Vassar's first black graduate but passed most of her life as white. Oddly, Simms too had been told she was related to Thomas Jefferson...
...some Faculty members disagree, saying they feel that an educational opportunity is sacrificed by dual submission...