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...mean that there is such a thing as good stress and bad stress?" she asks. The social-class research also needs to branch out and investigate if other factors are at work. For example, says Gorman, there is a tendency for children to stay in the same general socioeconomic stratum as their parents. "There is also evidence," she says, "that environmental deficits in the womb and early in life" can seriously affect a person?s health later on. Thus poor adults, who may simply be the inheritors of a poor childhood, may exhibit a less healthy adult life cycle...
...lives -- think Karla Faye Tucker, or Texas dragging murderer James William King. But the death sentence handed down Tuesday to former state prosecutor and political adviser Thomas Capano for the murder of a secretary to the governor of Delaware brings the death penalty to a far more rarefied social stratum. Indeed, when was the last time a rich, powerful white man was sentenced...
...Unknown City: The Lives of Poor and Working Class Young Adults explores the twentysomethings who occupy the lowest economic stratum. The book does not pose a singular argument or present one over-arching thesis. Rather, by chronicling the lives of the young working class, it attempts to locate patterns and questions. But the questions that The Unknown City poses extend to more awesome issues than the future of economics and jobs. Instead, it documents the strain of poverty and race relations as inner cities turn from melting pots into pressure cookers, ready to explode...
...consensus on these parties seems to be that they can be a lot of fun as long as one does not get caught up in the prospect that they are meant to showcase women and find them husbands in a certain social stratum. Emily '00 (not the author) was somewhat pleasantly surprised with the deb balls she attended: "They were really beautiful and a lot of fun. Although they were silly because people seemed to have lost their sense of reality, there was a much more interesting mix of people than I expected. I would have thought the crowd would...
...French explorer-anthropologist Michel Peissel and British photographer Sebastian Guinness say they have located the gold-digging ants on Pakistan's Dansar plain near the tense 1949 cease-fire line with India. The "ants," it turns out, are actually marmots, cat-size rodents that burrow in a gold-bearing stratum of sandy soil a few feet underground. Peissel believes Herodotus' confusion came from the ancient Persian word for marmot, which means mountain...