Word: gaps
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...think that [crimes] will happen to them, but they do. You just have to be careful.” Wu says integrating into local communities is one of the most challenging tasks in studying abroad. “There’s a really big culture gap, especially in Africa, that makes it hard to integrate,” Wu says. To aid that process, she joined a ballroom dance team that sometimes practiced for over five hours a day, and eventually went with them to a competition in Swaziland. As the only non-black female in attendance, Wu says...
...Ledbetter Fair Pay Act failed to gain a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. (Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama support the bill; John McCain is against it.) The National Women's Law Center, which is supporting Ledbetter, says changing the law would help close the gender wage gap; on average, women earn 77? to every dollar earned...
...hard to find people caught in the gap between India's dreams of greatness and the awful reality of its broken health system. Most of the country lives there. Take Abhishek Khushwa. He would be a normal kid but for the fact that nine years after his birth with a bladder defect, his family is still struggling to get him what should be a simple and relatively cheap operation. Like many sick Indians, Abhishek is both symptom and cause. His lack of proper treatment is reason enough for national shame but his ill health hurts the country in turn...
...blessing of her manager mother and the participation of her co-star father). As with the Janet Jackson incident at the Super Bowl, the dustup revealed a chasm between those who shrugged off the photo and those who saw it as an assault on common decency. The artsy/skanky gap, if you will...
...they hit the ball well, stayed back on the ball and drove it.”What has perennially been a dramatic final weekend between these two clubs lacked the tension of recent years, and Dartmouth’s doubleheader sweep only enforced the substantial gap between the clubs in the standings.“A chance for a winning season in the Ivies is down the drain, so that’s tough to cope with,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “We just didn’t do enough today...