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...attributed to immigration from Latin America and Asia, where the procedure is rare. Additionally, in more than a dozen states, Medicaid no longer covers the surgery routinely, leaving many poor children without the option. But intactivism is also gaining traction among educated, middle-class whites. As University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox observes, "It's these new parents that are unwilling to let kids suffer...
...psychology's giants who first theorized about the behavioral differences among siblings. You didn't mention, for example, Alfred Adler, a contemporary of Sigmund Freud's and Carl Jung's, who wrote extensively that birth order predicts personality. Nor did you mention the modern, highly influential ideas of Virginia Satir, who recognized that firstborn, middle, youngest and only children each have characteristic ways of forming relationships, taking responsibility and responding to authority...
...although official statistics will not be available until this May, after the Class of 2012 has formally enrolled. Specifically, by eliminating early admission, the admissions office was able to recapture six weeks of travel time for carefully targeted recruitment trips, many of which are conducted with the University of Virginia and Princeton, colleges that also ended their early admissions programs. The Office is relying on the research of recently departed professor of economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 and professor of public policy Christopher N. Avery ’88 which analyzed financial aid and admissions data...
Other Pacemaker winners include the University of Pennsylvania’s Daily Pennsylvanian, The Tech at MIT, and The Collegiate Times of Virginia Tech...
...January 3rd) plenty of people believe that the only way for Obama to dent Clinton's lead is to take her on directly. "It won't be easy to upend her, but it is possible with the right kind of attack," says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Obama and others need to point out that her polarizing nature may not only jeopardize the Democrats' chances for victory in 2008, but beyond...