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That's about average in Spain these days. The rate of broken marriages has risen steadily since Spain legalized divorce in 1981. But a 2005 reform that removed such obstacles as a ? mandatory year-long separation prior to the granting of a divorce has caused those numbers to skyrocket. Spain now has one divorce for every 2.3 marriages - an increase of 74% in the past two years alone...
...Cuba does hold the 25th lowest infant mortality rate (a useful indicator of public health care) in the world, but prior to the revolution it held the 13th lowest rate. The reforms that were enacted after the revolution were only extended insofar as they helped Castro consolidate his control over the island. Doctors, for example, are expected to keep records of each family’s “political integration,” assessing their patient’s commitment to the failed ideals of the revolution prior to treating them...
...Carlson ’09, “but now they have one kind of pasta and always have brown rice. Are we supposed to put the pasta sauce on the rice?” HUDS must work within a given budget that is determined in the winter prior to the school year, said Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, former chair of HUDS student advisory committee. “Given the limited time and resources they have, HUDS doesn’t get to set what the board rate is,” said Chadbourne. Chadbourne said HUDS...
...Barbara S. Graham and archivist Megan Sniffin-Marinoff—catalogs material based on subject matter and historical content. Sniffin-Marinoff described the plan as a counterpart to the Google Books project, which is working with HUL to digitize all of Harvard’s shelved books and manuscripts. Prior projects digitized as part of the Open Collections Program include “Women Working, 1800-1930” and “Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930.” The documents in “Contagion” shed light on the history of several...
...crime in the United States, costing the country more than $84 billion. Rasmusen contends the distinction is important because immigrants with a green card or U.S. citizenship have already jumped through several legal hoops to live and work in the U.S., including a background check into any prior criminal record back home. "Legal immigrants are by definition unusually law-abiding," Rasmusen wrote last June. But Professor Daniel Mears, a Florida State University criminologist, argues that such reasoning can also be turned on its head. "If someone is here illegally," Mears asks, "why would they call attention to themselves by committing...