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...think we should go down the path oftaking from people who have worked hard and donewell and give it to people who are less willing totake a risk," she said...
...more haves than have-nots in the world population. The capitalist business system that brought this about is our art form. It is no surprise then that some of the most talented and motivated young people today are eager to test their mettle, to step forward along the path that will push them furthest towards excellence. Why shirk these bigger challenges, why dodge our weightiest responsibilities, why go the toothpick route...
...vaporized. But a typical asteroid hits at less than half that speed, and some fragments often survive. So why did this one turn up 5,400 miles away from the Yucatan impact site? Kyte believes it was flung by the explosion high above the atmosphere in a ballistic path that plopped it into the Pacific...
Eston took a quite different path. For 14 years he lived in Chillicothe, the 1850 Census listing him as mulatto. But by 1860 he and his wife, who was also part black, were living in Wisconsin, his name changed to E.H. Jefferson, the marking on the Census now white. The family would become successful members of the white middle class, winding up on social registries. For descendants like Julia Jefferson Westerinen, 64, of New York City, there would be no idea of the family legacy. For her a brush with blackness was befriending the maid or disciplining her daughter Dorothy...
...Tricia Rose. Some urban blacks were able to straddle the fence, black at home and white at work. "You would have neighbors," says Golden. "But when you saw them downtown at the job, you knew not to speak to them." But for many, like Eston, it has been a path of no return. To be found out would mean losing status, jobs, opportunities--if not meeting violent results--so familial ties were permanently severed...