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...wage structures work, they denounce capitalists. Instead, they work backwards to determine that the “living wage” of a single adult with two children in Boston is $29.64 per hour, an annual income of $62,589, which is about 135% higher than the median household income in the U.S. Boston on a whole has slightly higher wages—the median was $52,792 per year in the 2000 census for the metropolitan area—but whatever benchmark is used, SLAM’s figure is inflated. While many on campus agree that Harvard ought...
...comedic timing is impeccable, and his dramatic range is showcased in every scene in which he begs his mother to take him back home. These emotions are so visible within Cross’s portrayal of Augusten, one wonders why he hasn’t already become a household name. With “Scissors,” Bening adds to her pantheon of knockout performances. She is so sublimely off-putting as Deirdre you wonder how the naturally charming actress pulls it off. Deirdre’s treatment of Augusten is callous bordering on monstrous, but Bening somehow makes...
Harvard College’s current annual price tag amounts to nearly two-thirds of the median household income in the United States, which was $65,093 in 2006 according to the US Census Bureau. In 1970, Harvard cost $4,070, which was less than half of the median family income, then...
...Last November, the Songhua River (in the northeast of the country) absorbed 100 metric tons of toxic benzene after an explosion at a chemical plant. The extent of the danger was made public only after household taps for 9 million people in the city of Harbin had been shut off, and just days before the slick crossed the border into Russia. The botched response led to the dismissal of China's top environmental official and to renewed calls for transparency and stricter enforcement of environmental standards. But little has changed. Recently Pan Yue, deputy director of China's State Environmental...
...Household activities...