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...have the same amount of money that we had before, and fewer people are now claiming it," said Christopher C. Plumb, a coordinator in the Office of Financial...
...English gentleman's club, but by 1717 had evolved into an engine of the European Enlightenment. Its members were committed to egalitarianism, civic participation and other ideals expressed through tropes of the stoneworkers trade: the square for straightforward virtue; the compass to circumscribe one's passions; the plumb line to stay upright. There was little religion but much ritual, which enraged churchmen and engaged conspiracy theorists, who still flood the Web with Masonic villainies, but it posed no problem for the Deists, who frequented the Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin joined in Philadelphia and later guided Voltaire through the order...
...taken more than three years to plumb that bottom. Long after the 1929 stock-market crash filled Wall Street with eerily silent crowds gaping in stunned apprehension, President Herbert Hoover was still clinging to the deeply held--and widely shared--belief that good old rugged individualism, with just a dash of government help (nothing so radical as a federal dole), would dispel the gathering Depression. But the economy only spiraled lower. By 1933 unemployment had hit 25%; people were foraging in garbage dumps for food; outside almost every large city, shantytowns, known as "Hoovervilles," drew the newly homeless...
Perhaps. But even the animal fringe has a fringe. Take--with as many grains of salt as you wish--the animal communicators. Like modern-day Dr. Dolittles, these visionaries have long talks with animal companions, often over the telephone, to plumb the depths of their presumably troubled psyches. A 30-min. consultation might reveal that an aging horse is worried about being sent to the glue factory or that a dog feels overburdened by having to bear all his master's secrets in silence. Typical cost: $35 a session. And they say psychotherapy is a dying...
...because of race--yet even a greater percentage believe racism remains a huge problem. Is this mass delusion or something else? Is there no way to get to the motivation or the origin of such black discontent? Shouldn't a study as exhaustive as this at least try to plumb that point? "You may be right," Abigail Thernstrom told TIME. The Thernstroms were "sufficiently tired" of the voice of black discontent that they chose not to get to the bottom of it. "I think that's a fair criticism of the book," Stephan says. "We didn't have the energy...