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...Babe Ruth, who made $80,000 a year in his prime, would be stunned by what baseball players earn today. Since 1976 the average salary in the major leagues has jumped from $44,000 to $360,000 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED estimates that at least 36 players will make $1 million or more this year. Mike Schmidt, the Philadelphia Phillies' slugging first baseman, tops the list with $2.13 million. Salaries in other sports are also reaching the stratosphere. Doug Flutie, the quarterback for the New Jersey Generals of the U.S.F.L., has a five-year contract reported to be worth $7 million. Basketball...
...oneday, worldwide housework strike on Oct. 24 to demand government salaries for cooking, cleaning and child care. As radical as the notion may appear, it dramatizes a discouraging fact: domestic labor, seen everywhere as women's work, is universally undervalued. Indeed, according to a recent survey by Economist Ruth Leger Sivard, director of World Priorities, a Washington-based think tank, the cash value of the unpaid labor of women represents $4 trillion a year, equivalent to a third of the world's gross economic product. Said Brooklyn, N.Y.-born Selma James, a leader of the strike call: "Women are very...
Source: Selected countries from Women ... A World Survey by Ruth Leger Sivard...
...question was a snap: "State and compare the laws of mass energy and momentum conservation in Newtonian and relativistic mechanics . . ." At least it was a snap for Ruth Lawrence, who scribbled the answers to this and 80 other mind bogglers in a four-week Oxford University exam "as if taking dictation," in the words of an awed fellow student. When the marathon test ended, Lawrence had finished first in a field of 192. The average student struggles through just 31 such questions. Lawrence's feat was remarkable for anyone, but all the more so for her, since she is only...
...making prodigies of the girl and her younger sister Rebecca. Neither child has ever been to school. All their primary and secondary learning has come from Harry and Sylvia, at desks set up in the family kitchen in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Partly as a result of this cozy tutorial, Ruth passed her high school-level exams at nine. Two years later, she won a scholarship at St. Hugh's College, scoring first in a field of 530 candidates on the university's entrance examination. Harry moved her into an off-campus rented flat, which he shares as academic coach and Praetorian...