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Most American Indians on reservations earn less than $7,000 a year. At least 35% are unemployed, and those who do work tend to be found in low-wage jobs. Roughly two-thirds live off the reservation, where they often find themselves % unprepared for urban life. Native Americans constitute one of the poorest of minorities and are likely to be less educated, more prone to illness, and more resistant to assimilation into the mainstream than any other ethnic group, even though they have been here the longest...
...attended them. Her lawyers contended that many of Topeka's schools remain "racially identifiable" because of a preponderance of black or white students. They argued that schools with the largest proportion of black students have "substantially inferior" facilities and teaching, contributing to the poorer scores that lower-class blacks tend to get on achievement tests. In order to bring each of Topeka's schools close to the overall system average of 18% black students, they urged system-wide busing -- an ironic stance as Smith's father had gone to court three decades earlier to win the right to enroll...
...almost every speech I give, I say this ((Conservative)) Party and these people are pro-American, and before I finish the sentence a round of applause breaks out. People are enormously appreciative of the generosity of the American people and of their fundamental love of liberty. I tend to regard the United States as Europe on the other side of the Atlantic, which of course is really very much what...
...teachings are harder to get a bead on, from the outside looking in. Cerebral, for one thing, which explains the attraction to an educated crowd. Pressed for specifics, his students tend to develop a moist eye, a bemused grin, an air of higher enlightenment and a condescending kiss-off: "Really too complicated to go into in depth." Certain words get great play: compassion, creativity, generosity, grace, humor, kindness, love, sanity, scholarship. It is, say religious scholars, more of a method than a religion. The relationship between teacher and student is similar to that between psychiatrist and patient, goes one definition...
...high-quality, stable infant day care. A new study conducted by Psychiatrist Peter Barglow of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital and colleagues supports this view. It concludes that even upper-middle-class one-year-olds, enjoying ostensibly the best substitute care -- at home with a nanny or baby sitter -- tend to be less securely attached to their mothers. "Is the mother by far the best caretaker for the child in the first year?" asks Barglow. "We think probably...