Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afterword, Wing can dispel any illusions we might have had that the story was a novel--for in reality, she writes, it was her life--and she can once again emphasize the tenuous connections between author and subject and the multiplicities of "I" when she says: "My tale has no end. Like Chinese boxes within boxes, like Russian dolls within dolls, like an onion peeling back its skin, we go on revealing our hearts in the hope that they may never stop beating...
Poor couples also seem more hesitant to acknowledge conflict over the second shift, although Hochschild demonstrates its importance in their marriages. It might seem that conflicts over housework and child-rearing would be more intense for those families which must do without baby-sitters and maids. But Second Shift does not deal with this discrepancy...
Brodwin said that heightened security might help prevent future break...
...professor, whose identity was not disclosed by the police, suspected the package might be dangerous after she recognized the handwriting of an "unstable" former employee, the report said...
...Might the Geeks have it backwards? Tomorrow's Nerds may enter the world predisposed to intellectual pursuits, but their minds are still tabula rasa. Might it be the social humiliation they suffer--a result of funny looks, facial blemishes, body odor or one of a thousand other causes--which steers them away from crowds and towards libraries...