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...person, makes life for the multiracial individual more difficult than it ought to be. Many institutions have come to understand the importance of racial complexities and have accommodated the need to “check all that apply.” For example, after much debate, the Census Bureau finally allowed respondents to identify all their racial groups on the 2000 Census. Even the common application for college admissions allows students to check more than one racial box. Multiracial students can breathe sighs of relief at not having to choose one parent over another and not having to superficially base...
...desire to get organized is a major stimulus for all this closeting. (That and the fact that on average, Americans buy about 75% more clothes now than they did 10 years ago, according to census data.) A 2005 survey by Rubbermaid claims that more women said they wanted to organize their closets than said they wanted to lose weight. Another spur to the industry: celebrity closets. Often the most interesting part of MTV Cribs is a peek into the clothing warehouses of the rich and famous: Mariah Carey's revolving, glass-enclosed shoe cabinet, for example. Other shows--including...
...decent lifestyle in Boston. Living wage advocates are defining “decent” far too generously. According to the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the 2005 median income for a family of four in the Boston metro area is $82,600. This number is slightly higher than the U.S. Census Bureau’s last median income estimate for all of Massachusetts (in 2003), which showed that the state had the second highest median income in the nation. At $20 per hour with a 40-hour workweek and two weeks of vacation, two Harvard janitors would pull...
...point out that abstinence billboards now dot Uganda's capital Kampala where condom posters used to be. Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni, a high-profile member of one of the country's fast-growing evangelical churches, has been spreading a message of abstinence and even advocates a "virginity census," though she's short on details about how to conduct it. President Yoweri Museveni last year attacked the widespread use of condoms in a speech to the U.N. aids Conference in Bangkok. With such powerful people on one side, Were thinks the official policy of a balanced approach is getting...
Over two-thirds of New Orleans’ population was black, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, with a third of the general population living under the poverty line...