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...Princeton when you come from a public-housing project." I grew up in the 1960s in a public-housing project in Brooklyn, N.Y. Although I did my graduate work at Georgetown not Princeton, several of the kids in our project did go on to Ivy League colleges. In fact, many of the kids I grew up with became doctors, lawyers, college professors, social workers and journalists. A lot of kids who grow up rich never learn to develop their minds or work as hard as the "underprivileged" kids. Lisa Beth Durham, OLLON, SWITZERLAND...
...diarists approach their subject like anthropologists, engaged in rational inquiry into an alien culture and the nature of nurture. Thus I learned from Apple things I never knew from reading What to Expect When You're Expecting, like the Stalinist roots of Lamaze and the fact that in the 1st century Pliny the Elder recommended that women in labor drink goose semen mixed with water to ease the process along...
Remember, this is a crisis born in part of the fact that households around the world in particular took on too much debt. So debt as a share of our economy rose to extraordinarily high levels, and we're having a recession that is deeper in part because people are having to go back to living within their means. It means probably that you're going to see a slower recovery than we would normally...
Saying energy prices would stay high was one of the great forecasting errors of the late 1970s and early '80s--so it's a little scary to predict that they will stay high this time around. But the fact that even the slightest hint of a turnaround in the global economy has sent oil prices skyrocketing from $35 a barrel to more than $70 ought to be a sign that the upward price cycle that started a decade ago isn't played out yet. The crucial element may be that the struggling U.S. no longer drives the global demand cycle...
Thembi, who died June 5 at the age of 24, lived in Khayelitsha, one of the largest shantytowns in South Africa. In a country with one of the highest AIDS rates in the world, the fact that Thembi was HIV positive made her a statistic. What made her special is that she spoke...