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...understand," says David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values. It is an effect that pioneering scholars like McLanahan and Judith Wallerstein have devoted their careers to studying, revealing truths that many of us may find uncomfortable. It's dismissive of the human experience, says Blankenhorn, to suggest that kids don't suffer, extraordinarily, from divorce: "Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check...
...however, that I was stuck in the past. The Lega Nord no longer simply spelled federalism and social conservatism. No, this right-wing-populist party had taken a different direction: anti-immigration policy. In fact, in 2002, a politician associated with the party had gone so far as to suggest that immigrants and native Italians should take different trains. And not long after that, Giancarlo Gentili, a Lega member and, at the time, mayor of Treviso, proposed that Italians shoot immigrants like rabbits...
...they? A new study published in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics would suggest precisely the opposite. For some teens, at least, their reckless, sometimes life-endangering choices are fueled not by feelings of being bulletproof, but by the belief that they're doomed to die young anyway. (See pictures of teenagers in America...
...University officials had originally stated in March that the payout would decrease by 8 percent this coming year and by at least the same amount the following year. Spokesman John D. Longbrake said they have since revised their guidance to suggest a 12 percent decrease for fiscal year 2011, which begins a year from this July...
...programs. Food shortages returned last year, while aid and investment from neighbors such as South Korea and Japan have dwindled. How bad the situation may be is hard to assess since North Korea doesn't reveal significant economic data. Estimates from South Korea's central bank, released on Monday, suggest that North Korea's gross domestic product recovered in 2008 after two years of contraction, with 3.7% growth. The bank attributed the increase to "one-off factors," such as an improved harvest. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...