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Working-class whites are a shrinking segment of the overall U.S. population. In 1940 they accounted for 86% of adults 25 and older; by 2007, that percentage was only 48. But they tend to be concentrated in many of the states that have been most competitive in recent presidential elections and are likely to be again this fall: states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio...
...according to a new National Academy of Sciences report. The influx of people entering the system will exceed the number of providers who can care for them: there are only 7,100 physicians certified in geriatrics in the U.S., for example--only 1 for every 2,500 older Americans...
Projected U.S. population 65 and older (millions...
...Tang Clan, with its nine living members and hundreds of “affiliates,” won’t disappear so quickly. Older than some Harvard freshman, Wu-Tang still manages to make its presence felt. This evening, their “Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game” (one of several ‘backronyms’ spelling out Wu-Tang that the group has devised for its name) will grace Yardfest in Tercentenary Theater (which has no backronyms...
...you’re younger these people are just names that you hear in class and that you slowly begin to approach and study. In a way these names are just kind of talismanic; they’re not attached necessarily to their books. And then as you get older and start reading these things you begin to appropriate the ideas; they begin to exist less for you as names than as actual ideas. One of the things about American literature is that it’s always been slightly embarrassed by itself. It’s always been...