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Ohio officials admit the pot is too big, given that the number of Ohioans living in poverty rose 17% from 2000 to 2004 and some 83,000 families are on welfare. They blame the gap on accounting errors and on counties that they say failed to put TANF-eligible programs into place. "We are making aggressive efforts to get more money into the hands of the working poor," says Barbara Riley, director of Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services. The state will use $75 million to help heat the homes of low-income Ohioans. And poor households just...
...picking up on an undertone of empathy with the hairier sex, you're right. This isn't a we-are-the-world book in which Vincent rejoices in our common humanity. It's too subtle for that, too smart and too honest. If anything, she found the gender gap to be even more unleapable than she had expected. But she did come to believe that some feminist sniping at men is just too easy, that if women tried harder to understand men, they'd realize that men too are trapped by patriarchal prejudices in their own way. "I think...
...beginning to do what few other problems have been able to accomplish: serving as a catalyst to bring the study of humans as people and humans as organisms closer together than ever before. And one introductory lecture course at Harvard is using the study of AIDS to bridge that gap, too.The Life Sciences 1 curriculum has taken on the ambitious task of providing curious and over-confident freshmen with a comprehensive survey of elementary biology and chemistry in a mere eight months. Comparable to space food, the material is condensed and not inherently enjoyable, but then again, we?...
...Lala said. Sanby Lee ’08, co-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association (AAA), stressed the importance of King’s message to Asian Americans. “Injustice and inequality affect everyone,” she said, citing the large gap between the rich and poor in her community. “We must unify what is a fragmented Asian American community.” Khalid M. Yasin ’07, president of the Harvard Islamic Society, said the fight for civil rights is not over, especially for Muslim Americans. But Tulita...
...Dartmouth guard Leon Pattman converted a layup to close the gap to 47-40 with 11:21 left, but Harvard had the lead back to 11 with just under 10 minutes to go. It maintained its double-digit advantage for the rest of the contest...