Word: higher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Without higher education, said Cuomo, unskilled workers are "going backwards as the cost of their housing and health insurance is growing at a rate much faster than their wages...
...prison reported incomes of less than $2,000 in the year before their arrest? Why are there so few jobs that are meaningful and pay a living wage? What makes people desperate enough to use and sell drugs? Why are millions of dollars being shifted from public spending on higher education to build a new prison each week...
...lasting luck is his wife Marion. Emily Watson plays her as a kind of dream nanny--knowing, ironic, tolerant of his erotic nostalgia and not as prim as she looks. She, and Metroland, finally make a good, subtle case for the bearable weightiness of middle-class being, for the higher morality of muddling through...
Kids who smoke like to think that they're immortal--or at least that if they stop in time, their lungs will heal. But a report in last week's Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests early smoking may trigger changes in DNA that put young smokers at higher risk for cancer even if they later quit. Researchers studying lung-cancer patients found that those with the worst genetic damage were not those who smoked longest but those who started youngest. What's more, the earlier they started, the more severe the damage...
Doctors used to blame the higher incidence of lung cancer among those who started smoking in their youth on their prolonged exposure to tobacco. But the new study, involving 143 subjects in the Boston area--some of whom lit up as early as age seven--suggests a more insidious cause. Explains epidemiologist John Wiencke of the University of California at San Francisco: "Use of tobacco so early apparently permanently impairs normal processes of cell renewal. Otherwise, their DNA damage would long since have been repaired...