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Hetherington found that 25% of children from divorced families have serious social, emotional or psychological problems, as opposed to 10% of kids from intact families. That's 2 1/2 times the risk--on its face, a stat worth worrying over. Hetherington acknowledges the gap between kids in nuclear and postnuclear families: "You can say, 'Wow, that's twice as big,' as some clinicians like Wallerstein do. But what it also means is that 75% of kids are functioning within the normal range. People don't focus on the resiliency of children...
...Gap used the Web and e-mail more aggressively to advertise sales and deliver coupons, emphasizing that they could be redeemed online or off. Joanne Goodreds, 33, a manager for a financial printer in New York City has been shopping online for years, and says she noticed that Gap and other e-tailers were much more active in attracting business by sending these alerts. "The e-mails were kind of annoying in their frequency," she says, "but ultimately they were a smart move, because I did end up making sale purchases that I probably would not have otherwise." Sears...
Reich went on to attack the wage gap between rich and poor, which he said widened dramatically during the 1990s...
...Malay community has made progress in recent years, in universities and in the job market. But it is still poorer than the other two major ethnic groups, Chinese and Indians, and tops the list of the government's carefully compiled stats on divorce rates and drug addiction. The gap in society might be larger than people realize?and could yawn even wider if the Malay community as a whole is blamed for its extremists. "This will be a test of the strength of the fabric of our society," is the stark assessment of Singapore's National Development Minister...
...fear that the financial catastrophes of recent years will continue to haunt our financial markets and questions will continue to be raised about our system of investor-based capitalism on which our economy depends," Fisher said. And closing that "disclosure gap" - not preventing the next corporate implosion, but making sure investors get the warning signs as promptly as possible - with accounting- and disclosure-rules reform is now Washington policymakers' most important...