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...focus on health has also had some negative side-effects as well. For instance, while sustained moderate exercise is clearly beneficial, this new cultural norm has been carried to an unhealthy extreme by some...
Welcome again to the crazy world of house football, where two-point conversions are the norm and centers double as quarterbacks...
...whites are rich or even well off--in fact thousands are unemployed --but a comfortable style still seems to be the norm. The presence of servants is an important part of the lives of whites. Most middle-class families employ at least one live-in maid, and, with monthly wages running around $60, many have a cook or gardener as well. The thought of doing without household help seems to panic the whites almost as much as the slogan "One Man, One Vote." The young wife of a lawyer in Johannesburg, who is also the mother of two small children...
Radcliffe women of the early 1960s say theywere not supposed to allow this intellectualfreedom to interfere with their family lives. "Itwasn't the norm for women to have their career andchildbearing all at once," remembers Ann BoodyMorgan '61. "The women I knew raised theirfamilies first, then had careers." And Heywood,mother of three children, says: "My generation gotthe message that you planned a life so that in thefirst part you would have a family, but when thekids grew up you would have a career. Theywouldn't be simultaneous...
Define progressive levels of skill, responsibility and reward, with a salary norm of $35,500, rising to an average of $65,500 for special "lead teachers," who might do anything from setting curriculum standards to actually running a school, perhaps by committee...