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...trickle has not escaped the Census Bureau. Last January it reported that for the first time in more than a century the proportion of black Americans living in the South had taken an upward climb: 56% lived in the region in 1988, up from 52% in 1980. More important than the number of blacks, however, is the implicit indictment of the North and the redemption of the South contained in this black to-and-fro. "What's unusual is that they were immigrants to another country in a real sense, and ordinarily, immigrants don't go back...
...barometer of a nation's health is more closely watched than life expectancy. Since the turn of the century, when record keeping began, the U.S. trend has been upward for all segments of the population. Life expectancy for whites has risen from 48 years in 1900 to more than 75 today. Blacks have fared even better, more than doubling the number of years they could expect to live, from 33 to nearly 70. Now, however, an alarming change is taking place. While life expectancy for whites is still climbing, it is dropping for blacks...
According to the Boston Sunday Globe, sources familiar with the study say the slight upward trend in attendance over the past three years could be reversed because of cuts in budgets that had supported dropout prevention programs...
...long ago, Jackson went to Harvard to lecture, and he asked his audience if the university was educating people "to go home, not necessarily where they came from, but to some place where they can dig in and support meaningful things, not just upward mobility." Jackson got no firm answer, nor did he expect one. He carries the question with him wherever he travels to make people think again about what they may have lost and what they really treasure. He seeks a new generation that can find and grasp the "great and priceless privilege" that Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps...
...Jell-O, since it is already committed to an S&L bailout that could cost $1 trillion and owes a national debt of $3 trillion. If more bailouts are needed, the U.S. would have to borrow so much money from the credit markets that interest rates would be pushed upward in the midst of a recession, which would make conditions even worse. "We are skating on what may seem to be firm ice," says Harvard political economist Robert Reich. "But it is thinning rapidly, and we really don't know how thin...