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...social-class research also needs to branch out and investigate if other factors are at work. For example, says Gorman, there is a tendency for children to stay in the same general socioeconomic stratum as their parents. "There is also evidence," she says, "that environmental deficits in the womb and early in life" can seriously affect a person?s health later on. Thus poor adults, who may simply be the inheritors of a poor childhood, may exhibit a less healthy adult life cycle -- not because of lower-class stress but rather because they may have been exposed to more lead...
...unemployment at lows not seen since the late 1960s, it's easy to forget that job hunting is still one of the most important rites of adult life--maybe now more than ever. High-tech whizzes and software wonks may be snapped up barely out of their mother's womb. But the structure of working life has changed to the point that virtually everyone will be looking for a new job--and the people who can help them get it--far more often than in the past. Since the downsizing of the early 1990s and the blitzkrieg arrival...
...life and short fame of Annie Taylor, an elderly and utterly destitute school teacher living at the turn of the century who devised and executed what seemed the perfect plan for money and fame. After building with her thin hands a barrel to enclose her body like a womb and shelter her from her fall over the raging ledge of water, Annie Taylor subsequently became the first person in history to propel herself down the length of Niagara Falls in a barrel...
...Queen of the Mist; rather, the spare imagery Murray painstakingly inserts allows the heartbreaking story to tell itself without unnecessary flourishes. Images of birth, death and rebirth permeate the poem's language, providing the strongest continual layer of metaphor within the poem. The barrel, Annie's self-made womb, becomes in the end Annie's self-made tomb as Annie watches herself disintegrate within the short and petty memory of history. Eventually she is even called an imposter when the idealistic collective imagination consumes memory and literally recreates "Annie Taylor" into a blonde, beautiful symbol of female youth and fertility...
...substantial part of the population--no less intelligent or insightful than the pro-choice activists--condemns abortion and believes that aborting a growing, moving fetus which has not yet emerged from the womb amounts to taking that life in the same way that suffocating a newborn child would amount to murder. For these people--and I count myself among them--there is no choice to be made. Peaceful demonstrations by anti-abortionists in front of churches and clinics, even those targeted at specific individuals, serve a purpose in voicing these concerns--a purpose that should be protected...