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...dictatorship a mere generation ago. Under Francisco Franco's Catholic-inspired, military-enforced rule, which lasted until 1975, the Spanish family was the iconic, idealized centerpiece of society. That homogeneous model is now being supplanted by a mosaic of family types. Spanish families are ever more urban and transient, and ever less grounded in faith and marriage. In 1975, 10,895 Spanish children were born out of wedlock; by 2006, it was 137,041. "Spanish family patterns have changed beyond recognition," says María del Mar González, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Seville...
...concerns have been voiced about the treatment of long-term projects given the potentially-transient nature of the current administration...
...study, which included 140 middle-aged volunteers with normal blood pressure, was designed to take a closer look at the link between noise and hypertension risk - a relationship that researchers still don't fully understand. "It seems plausible that if you have a lot of these transient [blood pressure] changes during the night - if you live around the airport for many years, for example - that in the end you might get some long-term effects on your blood pressure," says Jarup, "but we don't really know." Why the body responds to nighttime noise is also somewhat mysterious. While...
...danger has now become quite clear that this may be transient and therefore, scientists must speak up,” he added...
...Pilbeam’s aversion to the interim tag may be due in part to the negative associations that the label seems to evoke among representatives of both students and the Faculty, who believe that the transient tenures of top University officials in the past few years have retarded high-level decision-making...