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...titular sum. One family sank everything into a home it bought a year and a half ago, which has since lost $150,000 in value. A single mom faces foreclosure. A laid-off father of two says, "Unless we win this, we could be the next for SALE sign on this block." (See the top 10 TV series...
...most literal efforts to turn the recession into entertainment will--like past network trend-chasing--end up being too repetitive and too far behind the curve. In which case, pray for the networks to make as many series as possible about the lousy economy. That'll be the surest sign that the recession is almost over...
...dearth of females among the Harvard faculty discouraged her from pursuing a Ph.D. She says she thought it would be “practically impossible for a woman to be hired as an academic at an ivy league institution.”“It was a sign of the times. Most of us generally accepted the discrimination that existed,” she said.McNeal, who studied biochemical sciences as an undergraduate, said that in the male dominated department, the concentration’s women missed out on a camaraderie shared by the men. In some classes, there were...
...Soviet engineering corps. Passed in 1958, the National Defense and Education Act aimed to mitigate that gap by providing funding to universities, including cash for student financial aid, but in a hold-over of McCarthy era fears, the act required student recipients to swear a loyalty oath and sign a loyalty affidavit to the United States and its Constitution.‘A VERY UNCONSCIOUS TIME’The radicalism of the 1960s was not brewing at Harvard in 1959. Throughout 1959 headlines announcing steps to pressure Congress to remove the loyalty oath from the NDEA dominated The Crimson...
...Congressman, U.S. Representative Adam Putnam, recently co-introduced a bill, the Student Protection Act, to set up a scholastic version of the national sex-offender database and prevent teachers like Lafave from getting classroom jobs in other districts or states. Whether or not the legislation passes, it's a sign of the emotional turmoil that women like her have wrought in their communities...