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...hard on Germany. If North and South Korea were ever to reunite then Germany would be the benchmark of how to do it. Just contrast America 100 years after the end of the Civil War with German progress of the last two decades. Growing up in Pennsylvania in the 1950s, I knew of those North vs. South prejudices and the status of African Americans and other minorities. It was dangerous to travel in certain southern states - just ask any civil rights activist. While Germany has its own racial and immigration problems with sporadic outbreaks of violence, they are nowhere near...
...studies Computer Science at the GSAS, spent four years at the University of Pennsylvania, a campus with a higher incidence of robberies than Harvard, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education...
This year, the University of Pennsylvania combined its “Why Penn” essay with a short answer asking applicants to discuss a professor with whom they would like to study. The new question now asks students how, specifically, they would contribute to the social and intellectual communities on campus...
...recent study found that mortality rates don't increase during a recession. But your research of earnings and death records in Pennsylvania found that when high-seniority males, especially those around age 40, are laid off, their mortality rate initially jumps 50% to 100% and that while the risk abates over time, a job loss can shave 1 to 1½ years off their life expectancy. Are these studies in conflict? No. For these people [in our group], being laid off in a recession was important because they experienced a big and long-lasting shock to their lives, including large...
...first round. Then comes a conference committee, and a struggle within the Democratic Party over the Senate bill and what is certain to be a more liberal version passed by the House. That's the point, all sides agree, where they will be looking to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue for guidance. Barack Obama will no longer be able to stand on the sidelines and will have to declare his own position on many of the issues that have divided his party. As one top congressional aide put it, "The President is going to have to play...