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...history of our nation has demonstrated that separate is seldom, if ever, equal,” the justices wrote...
...consecutive losses equal one more than Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith’s squads have incurred in the past two seasons combined and mark the first time since 1994 that the Crimson has suffered two straight Ivy defeats...
...Kurds are returning, sometimes routing the Arab settlers. Meanwhile, Kurdish political leaders are vowing to include the Kirkuk region, by force if necessary, in the area that they intend to continue governing autonomously in the new Iraq. Today the region's population of 1.5 million is composed of almost equal proportions of Kurds, Arabs and Turkomans...
More significant, in 1992 it took the combined wages of 287,400 retail clerks at, say, Wal-Mart, to equal the pay of the top 400. By 2000 it required the combined pay of 504,600 retail clerks to match the pay of the top 400. That's roughly the equivalent of the folks in Big Piney, Wyo., receiving the same income as all the people in Pittsburgh, Pa., and several of its suburbs...
...acid reflux, comes from Japan. Because of the rapid rise in drug imports, especially from Ireland, Britain and Germany, the U.S. balance of trade in pharmaceuticals has tipped sharply into deficit. During the early 1990s, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission, imports and exports of pharmaceuticals were "almost equal at just under $10 billion each." Since then the U.S. trade deficit has spiraled from nearly $600 million in 1995 to more than $20 billion in 2002, the last year for which complete data are available. The trend is continuing. Singapore is on track to be a potential Ireland. Lured...