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...opined that "one reason the childcare employment pool may include so many foreign workers is that in many other countries the care of children is an honorable profession. In America, it is scut work." A reader might be inclined to believe that there are hordes of immigrants whose sole function is to provide affordable childcare for middle-class American women...
...executive board is now asking for volunteers from the student body to join the committee. Both Beys and Fine said they are looking for people with different--but not necessarily favorable--opinions of the council's function on campus...
Chow and his colleagues found that AZT and ddI, added separately, caused the virus to mutate to different forms, but did little to halt its function...
Chemicals may help explain (at least to scientists) the feelings of passion and compassion, but why do people tend to fall in love with one partner rather than a myriad of others? Once again, it's partly a function of evolution and biology. "Men are looking for maximal fertility in a mate," says Loyola Marymount's Mills. "That is in large part why females in the prime childbearing ages of 17 to 28 are so desirable." Men can size up youth and vitality in a glance, and studies indeed show that men fall in love quite rapidly. Women tumble more...
Greenfeld does see a common denominator among the different "nationalisms": their function as status guarantors. "If there is something that unifies [nations], it is this guarantee of dignity," says Greenfeld, "but they can provide dignity in many different ways, which explains the variations between different nationalist experiences...