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...well as other domestic workers - looked on, Thelma and her fellow thespians grappled with the burden of their sacrifice. In previous lives, many were schoolteachers, beauty contestants and union organizers, but now they toil around the clock, rushing after spoiled kids and reckoning with deadbeat husbands. An estimated one-third of the Filipinas working as domestic servants in Hong Kong are university graduates. "What good has that done me?" demands one cast member. "I am just scrubbing toilets...
...anger that many citizens feel. Across the U.S., Americans feel squeezed and threatened by the newcomers. Part of the anxiety is undeniably race based. Fox News's Bill O'Reilly leavened his reluctant support for the Senate bill with warnings that it "drastically alters" a country that is already "one-third minority." Others worry about language preservation. Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado gave a breathless defense of the English language at the G.O.P. debate, saying that bilingualism has failed other countries and that the U.S. was fast headed in that direction. Yes, it's true: Mexicans speak Spanish. Relax...
...mental health chief, Paul J. Barreira. “There’s a discrepancy between behavior and perception,” says Barreira, adding that students often mistakenly believe that mental illness is abnormal. The poll also reveals a gender gap in mental health matters. Exactly one-third of men sought mental health help while at Harvard, compared to 43 percent of women. But that gap does not necessarily mean that women are more likely to suffer from mental illness, according to Barreira. Rather, it may be that women are more willing to seek help from professionals...
...multi-- drug-resistant kind is worse. And XDR is the very rare but very awful strain that has all but exhausted the medical arsenal, leaving mainly faith and force as weapons: keep the patient isolated and hope that some treatment works against it, which happens in less than one-third of cases. The good news is that most people infected with the germ won't develop the disease; there have been fewer than 50 cases in the U.S. since 1993. The bad news is that extended contact in an enclosed space--like a long airplane flight--is the perfect petri...
...they're on the same page, but the reality is they avoided even talking about it. A Merrill Lynch survey found husbands were significantly more likely to say they share common goals with their wives, while women were more apt to say they haven't ever discussed the issue. One-third of the couples surveyed disagreed about whether they have a viable financial plan...