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...that transcends ideological debates and is present in Spain's everyday life. Our economy is too much focused on construction. It has gone well for many years, but apparently we are now at the bubble's bursting point. The increasing price of houses is untenable, and it is a handicap for young people and students like me who simply cannot afford to buy a house and therefore need to rely on our parents. That is the social problem that lies beyond, and no one seems to have a solution. Javier Iglesias de Ussel Madrid Hail to the King...
...groom. Are they divorced? If so, it's been known for some time that their children are at higher risk of divorce when they marry. It's quite significant - it raises their odds of divorce by 14%. But you need to know a little more before applying this handicap. Before the parents divorced, was their conflict loud and visible to the children? Or was their conflict kept hushed behind closed doors? Surprisingly, it's the children of the latter who are getting divorced. Growing up in a home where they thought everything was fine - until their parents suddenly announced their...
...uncomfortable place to travel. He circled the earth, traversed Siberia, roamed the Australian outback and the Brazilian rain forest, climbed Vesuvius during an eruption, hunted elephants in Ceylon and slave ships in the Atlantic and wrote best-selling books about it all. He did all this despite a grave handicap: he was blind...
...Leone and other observers say, is that, in the post--9/11 years, New York City's business community has steadily migrated to midtown Manhattan because of its easier access to the city's northern suburbs. "For the past 25 to 30 years, lower Manhattan has suffered under a handicap, compared to midtown, due to transportation," says William Wheaton, an economist who heads research at the Center for Real Estate at M.I.T. Sept. 11 only accelerated the northern shift by the law firms and investment banks that for decades had anchored Wall Street. Immediately after 9/11, many financial firms, including...
Many of this country's naturally gifted scientists--its most inquisitive, observant, persistent citizens--share a handicap: they can't read yet. They also can't play with matches, focus microscopes or see over lab tables. "Children love to explore the natural world. They love to make sense out of it," says Carlo Parravano, director of the Merck Institute for Science Education, which trains teachers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. "By fourth grade, we squash that curiosity with the way we teach science...