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...survey done in 2001 showed that 20% of refugees polled were unemployed and nearly 32% had only temporary work. "The gap between South and North Korean standards is too wide," says refugee Chung Ju Hwa. "The government should assume we are starting from zero...
They are probably right. I would have to be pretty dumb to come back to a country where the in-your-face disparity between the rich and the poor makes my stomach turn. The income gap here is not any wider than that of many developed countries, including the United States. But when there’s no middle class in a country of only 4 million people in an area the size of the state of Delaware, the contrast between rich and poor is appalling. Just 10 minutes outside Beirut in the Palestinian camps or the Shiite suburbs...
...always like to tell people that I love the challenge of making science accessible to the public, of bridging the gap between science and the rest of the world. It sounds very grand and noble, and does a decent job covering for my lack of definitive goals when talking to advisors and relatives. But what does it really mean? With my fancy Harvard biochemistry education, I often feel a nagging discomfort at the prospect of “dumbing things down.” Neurons become brain cells, atherosclerosis turns into heart disease...
...Truesdell added that she did not expect such a big gap between the candidates on the topic of issues...
...dynamic and determined force of hope. And after spending a week with the scholars, shuttling them around D.C., bonding over Frisbee and sharing dreams for the future, my optimism can’t help but overwhelm the aspect of disillusionment. I’m still confident that the gap between what society passively expects (a good education) and what it actively values (a good time) will eventually be bridged. We will finally learn that while no news may be good news, the converse is certainly not true. And even though it may be that only after society itself undergoes...