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...views as the most innately pro-Western constituency in Arab countries. Bin Laden may have been disowned by his wealthy family and stripped of Saudi citizenship, but his message evidently resonates with more than only impoverished and disenfranchised elements. "In the U.S. it is assumed that if Arabs are well-off and educated that they automatically love America," says TIME Middle East reporter Amany Radwan. "But there are clearly many very wealthy people who share Bin Laden?s hostility to the lifestyle and pro-Western policies of the Saudi royal family, and are prepared to give him money despite everything...
...disadvantaged students, who routinely score much lower on these tests. "If you give me the income tax returns of all the students being tested," says Kitty Kelly Epstein, who teaches education at California's Holy Names College, "I could predict how they would score and save millions of dollars." Well-off New York City parents hire tutors to give their kids a leg up, while poorer students depend on the goodwill of teachers generous enough to tutor them after school...
...Billingses are now the parents of a healthy three-month-old girl. And as well-off professionals, they can afford to brush off the incident as a minor bureaucratic irritation. But for many other would-be parents, the rapidly expanding availability of genetic tests to identify inherited ailments before or after birth often raises issues that are not so easily resolved...
...suggested that self-segregation is a bad thing. Self-segregation, even when it is self-imposed and "positive," keeps people apart. For example, I am in a blocking group of thirteen, of which eleven of us are white, nine of us are Jewish and all of us are from well-off families. I don't know how such self-segregation happened, but I lament it. I wish my circle of friends were more diverse, not simply to "season the rice" of my social experience, but because I identify it as a problem in myself...
Parental demand for early learning has grown steadily in recent years--as has the cost. Well-off families can usually afford the pricey tuition of private preschool, and the poor are eligible for aid in the form of Head Start, the federally funded preschool program. But middle-class families like the Morreales have traditionally been left...