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What Shipler aims to do in The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Knopf; 319 pages) is to produce a picture of all of those dominoes at once, the multitude of obstacles that keep the working poor on the edge--and sometimes beyond the edge--of household-finance disaster. As the gap between the highest-and lowest-paid workers steadily worsens, he writes, "low wage employees have been testing the American doctrine that hard work cures poverty...
...Year with a mysterious fever that developed into lung complications. "Mum," he told his mother, "my chest feels like it is going to explode." When he died last week, Kaptan became Thailand's first confirmed victim of avian influenza, the latest scourge to emerge from Asia. Inside the Boonmanuj household, relatives burn incense and quietly weep. Outside, chickens scratch around the yard freely--birds not so different from the ones that made Kaptan sick...
Female heads of households (without a partner or spouse) could use a financial leg up, according to a new study from the Consumer Federation of America and Catharine P. Montalto, a professor at Ohio State University. The report showed that these women on average have one-half the median income and one-third the net worth of other household heads. As a result, says Stephen Brobeck, director of the Consumer Federation of America, many of them are likely to live on the edge of solvency. Women in these situations need financial guidance so that they don't miss...
...face a risk when given antibiotics for the first time. A Detroit study found that such infants were 1 1/2 times as likely to develop allergies and twice as likely to develop asthma as babies who didn't take the drugs. But exposure to dander from two or more household pets seems to reduce these risks...
...Prayer before leaving the gates. On the day of Colgan's death, Kamont, a lapsed Baptist who admits to once having been a heavy drinker, flew back to Germany on home leave and told his wife he wants their 2-year-old daughter to grow up in a religious household. "When something like this happens," he says, "you need to have someone to pray...