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...long before Mattel jacked up the price of Barbie and the CPI confirmed rising prices, real people were feeling the sting. Making matters worse, after adjusting for the cost of living, the average wage in the U.S. has been in a down trend for nearly two years. For folks making less, even a touch of inflation imposes hardship...
...opinions and my thought process. Nonetheless, as University President Lawrence H. Summers has recently learned, there are still many off-limits areas in our ideological discourse. American society has moved steadily towards an intolerable absolutist form of political correctness, and Harvard students and faculty are not immune from this trend...
...hard figures on the growth of mompreneurs, but they are clearly part of a larger trend of female entrepreneurship. According to a study by the nonprofit Center for Women's Business Research, women are starting new businesses at twice the rate of men and own a 50% or greater stake in 10.6 million U.S. businesses. Organizations and websites have sprung up to serve the women behind these enterprises. Ladies Who Launch, an online, women's-only networking group, offers live workshops to its 25,000 members--40% of whom are moms. Authors Patricia Cobe and Ellen Parlapiano dispense advice...
...Police and youth counselors blame a familiar list of social forces for the trend, including the pressures of Korea's competitive school system, a lack of supervision by working parents, and the ready availability of violent video games and Internet pornography. Kids copy bad behavior out of curiosity, particularly when they can hide behind a group identity, says police juvenile-crime expert Kang Dae Il. Says Kim Yang Young Hee, a counselor at the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center, a Seoul-based NGO: "Kids think sexual violence is a game...
While the back half of the second period remained score-free on both parts, it certainly was not the trend in the upcoming third period...