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...transition to adulthood gets tougher the lower you go on the economic and educational ladder. Sheldon Danziger, a public-policy professor at the University of Michigan, found that for male workers ages 25 to 29 with only a high school diploma, the average wage declined 11% from 1975 to 2002. "When I graduated from high school, my classmates who didn't want to go to college could go to the Goodyear plant and buy a house and support a wife and family," says Steve Hamilton of Cornell University's Youth and Work Program. "That doesn't happen anymore." Instead, high...
...diplomacy are the best route to the objective of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Marwan Barghouti sees armed struggle as an indispensable lever in pursuit of the same goal, seeing it as a complement to talks because he believes that the Palestinians capacity to wage an armed intifada is surer leverage at the negotiating table than relying on the goodwill of the United States...
HOCKEY What's that? The sport has been shut down all season because of the NHL lockout. The players' latest offer--wage cuts but no salary cap--was nixed by the league...
...with the help of the couple's dog, Holly. A share of the revenues will go to charity. So what's the problem? Klaus Ochsner, president of Germany's pet-trade industry body, the ZZF, suggested that most of the goods are made not by Germans but by low-wage, Far East producers. "The Chancellor's wife ... is insulting the pet industry and endangering German jobs," he told industry title Tier Bild. Rossmann claimed that while the products come from all over, "an exact specification is not possible." If Schröder can't find a better line than that...
...chaos of postwar Iraq forced U.S. troops to wage alleyway fights with insurgents while trying to rebuild a war-torn nation--neither of which can be accomplished in 70-ton M1 tanks. Instead, commanders turned to the successor to the jeep, the 20-year-old High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), as the humvee is officially known. With canvas doors and a skimpy skin of sheet metal, most humvees are designed to move small numbers of troops quickly. After a 1993 mine blast killed four U.S. soldiers in Somalia in their thin-skinned humvee, the Army began buying armored versions...