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Powell did say, however, that if current trends of consumer spending persist, sales at the Coop this month will fall short of last year's figures...
Sure, the problems persist. The campus is still a dangerous place, the Adams House pool is still closed for "renovations" and those little career books from OCS suddenly started costing big bucks...
...hourly wages have fallen 19% since 1973, so most families need two jobs just to get by. If women were not working, the American family would be in desperate financial trouble by now. Yet we seem to expect women somehow to rear their children in their spare time. We persist in thinking of child care as a woman's issue. It's not. Fathers are more to blame for the parenting deficit in our society...
...years with TIME, Morrow has written about subjects ranging from pestilence to Presidents and from wars to the reason why men persist in wearing neckties. A colleague claims that Morrow uses the Socratic method. Says Lance: "It's more like the Lamaze method: a lot of huffing and subdued screams. When they start coming every 30 seconds or so, I deliver an essay." For his labors, he won a 1981 National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism and was a finalist a second time this spring...
...example, researchers now realize that nearly everyone harbors T cells that will react against their own nerve tissue. Yet less than 1 person in 1,000 develops multiple sclerosis. What else is the body doing to police its overly zealous defenders? Scientists do not expect the uncertainties to persist much longer. "We're at a point where we know when a child would be at a 50 to 100 times greater risk of getting a long list of autoimmune diseases," says Stanford neurologist Lawrence Steinman. "For several diseases we know the bacteria or viruses that can trigger the illness...