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George W. Bush arrives in Europe next week to commemorate the glorious victory over fascism that began with D-day, but let's face it: this doesn't feel like a time for celebration. The 60th anniversary of the Atlantic alliance's greatest triumph comes at the lowest point in its history. The inevitable comparison--between the righteous, successful American-led invasion and occupation of Europe and the divisive, troubled American-led invasion and occupation of Iraq--will surely launch a thousand newspaper columns...
...this “their fault, not mine” mentality is wholeheartedly embraced by all too many. However, the Harvard Political Review, with its recent “American Poverty” issue, is taking some admirable steps towards unseating many misconceptions regarding those in the lowest quintile. In one particularly compelling article about the “working poor,” writer Tobias Snyder adeptly points out “that for a large number of the poor, structural economic factors constrain their ability to advance,” and thus “the American dream...
...something were terribly wrong. Long-term interest rates are notching higher, a clear sign that some perceive the investment climate as riskier. The 10-year Treasury-bond yield hit 4.8% last Friday, up from 3.7% two months ago. Mortgage rates are jumping too. The Dow sank to its lowest level of the year last week, briefly dipping below...
...study, led by Robert McLean at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged in Massachusetts, found that men with the highest homocysteine levels were four times as likely to develop hip fractures as men with the lowest levels. The second study, from researchers at Erasmus University in the Netherlands, found that men and women with the highest levels of homocysteine had twice the risk of suffering a fracture compared with those with the lowest levels...
...Project shows that the proportion of black children in the South's white-majority schools has dropped significantly over the past fourteen years, fom an average of 43.5% to 32.7%. But the most segregated schools are found in the North with New York, California, Michigan and Illinois having the lowest percentages of black students in majority-white schools. Ironically, many blacks have moved back to the South because the conditions there are better than in places like Detroit, Cleveland and Baltimore...