Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Through a series of parables, fictional stories and theories, the law professor uses his book to set up the frightening case for why Blacks still suffer from the effects of racism...
...Basically I want people to realize that here's a billionaire who's asking the middle class to tighten their belts, suffer...to reduce the deficit," Gardner said. "He's in a good position to ask people to suffer...
...isolation more evident and painful than in the schools. "In a way, the most tragic years for African-American kids are the years from fourth to sixth grade," says Kozol. "Those are the years in which the dream dies. In many ways, poor white kids and poor black kids suffer equally. But in the inner-city schools, where the injury of caste is compounded by the injuries of race, the misery is of a different order...
...performed as early as the tenth week. Neither procedure is without risk, however, and when either succeeds in pinpointing a genetic defect, it forces would-be parents to make a terrible choice: Do they raise a child who might have a serious congenital affliction? Or do they suffer the torment and pain that accompanies an abortion...
...knows why the disease is spreading. The aging of the American population only partly explains the increase. No one knows why the cancer develops less often in Asians than in Americans or Europeans. Perhaps a low- fat diet plays a role in prevention. No one knows why black Americans suffer and die from prostate cancer more frequently than do white Americans...