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Readings in the class range from standard social theory such as Max Weber to the Bible and personal narratives...
...blood crash-test dummies. The only hard rule, by federal law, is that under no circumstances may anyone profit from the transaction. The exception to that rule, however, is that the people handling, storing and processing the body may collect a reasonable fee for expenses. Such a loose standard begs to be exploited...
...Michigan, and Meredith Michaels, who teaches philosophy at Smith College, label the phenomenon the New Momism. Nowadays, they write, our culture insists that "to be a remotely decent mother, a woman has to devote her entire physical, psychological, emotional, and intellectual being, 24/7, to her children." It's a standard of success that's "impossible to meet," they argue. But that sure doesn't stop women from trying...
...never easy to understand exactly what Alan Greenspan means when he makes his periodic Delphic statements about the financial system. But the Federal Reserve chairman set a new whazzat? standard recently when he suggested that the millions of homeowners who proudly hold a fixed-rate mortgage--roughly 80% of all those with a mortgage--are committing a financial blun-der that may cost them thousands of dollars a year...
...mortgage--in which the payoff period, not the monthly outlay, rises and falls with interest rates. Outside the U.S., fixed-rate deals are far less common, and adjustable-maturity mortgages are readily available. An ARM with a lifetime rate adjustment of just 2 percentage points (as opposed to the standard 6) also addresses this issue...