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...says Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University. The extended family will be more of a network of crisscrossing loyalties and obligations. As life-spans lengthen and marriages multiply, middle-aged couples could find themselves crushed by the responsibilities of caring all at once for aging parents, frail grandparents, children still completing their education and perhaps even a stepgrandchild or two. In short, the "sandwich generation," already feeling so much pressure in the 1990s, could give way to a multilayered club sandwich...
Dawn. As the red sun edges over the horizon, a crowd of frail bodies gathers in the chill morning air outside the UNICEF feeding center in Bardera, a small town in southern Somalia. Each person clutches an aluminum pot or gourd to be filled, they hope, with a meal of brown gruel before the day is over. For four weeks now they have been been arriving at the rate of 150 to 200 a day from villages as far as 125 miles away, camping overnight in abandoned huts and making their way to the center in the predawn hours through...
WHEN THEY SET OUT IN THEIR FRAIL BOATS, MOST know they will never reach the U.S. mainland. Yet Haiti's poor are so desperate to escape their country's turmoil that a record 10,514 have left the island so far in May, including 1,635 in one day alone last week. With the refugee camps at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba reportedly full and no plans for an expansion in the works, the Coast Guard began limiting its rescue efforts to refugees in "imminent danger" of sinking or starving during the 600-mile voyage through the northern Caribbean to Florida...
...would be some time -- about half a century after Harnett's death, in fact -- before another and more reclusive American, Joseph Cornell, would drag his fine net through the junk stores of New York and turn what it caught into frail, unique feats of the imagination that reach beyond illusionism and nostalgia. One can't not enjoy Harnett, but he is not an artist one should overrate...
...There are cities in the U.S. -- including a couple in Connecticut -- that have infant-mortality rates that exceed those of Third World countries. Our state has as good a record of compassion as any as to how it regards the frail elements of society. And yet the Connecticut department of children and youth services -- that's our children -- is under a court order to improve the quality of care for foster children. The department of correction is also under court order on prison overcrowding. . . I can go down the list. We used to exceed what the Federal Government...