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...their college diplomas has dried. The study, which looked at more than 10,000 people who received bachelor's degrees in 1999-2000, found that just one year after graduation, women who are working full time earn only 80% as much as their male counterparts do. True, female students tend to major in fields associated with lower earnings, such as education and health professions, which accounts for part of the wage gap. But even among co-eds who majored in the same subject in college, men are still earning more money than their female counterparts just 12 months...
...definition, the purpose of an autobiography is to document a life, yet certain circumstances tend to create exceptions to this rule. Can a chronicle of a life embroiled in controversy be, in its frank treatment of family, personal, and international history, free of that controversy? This seems to be the goal of “Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life,” written by Sari Nusseibeh in collaboration with Anthony David. Yet though the story itself is not an argument, many of Nusseibeh’s views are embedded in its telling. He denounces policies of violence...
...spends on his futon, has plenty of opportunities to enjoy his running mate’s amiability. But this is not to say that the two are joined at the hip: Sundquist’s schedule is his own, and it is a busy one. A BIG STICKDining halls tend to be lonely places at 7:15 a.m., but that doesn’t stop Sundquist from scheduling his first engagement of the day for precisely that time. With hot breakfast not due to be served for another 15 minutes, he swipes his card at the entrance of Lowell House...
...famous for good judgment and sober reflection. Indeed, recent neurological studies reveal that the brain doesn't even finish laying down all its wiring until deep into the second decade of life - far beyond the babyhood years in which scientists once believed this basic work got done. "Adolescents tend to take more risks in general and tend to be more impulsive," says psychologist William Pollack, of McLean Hospital in Boston. "Boys [especially] are socialized into the idea that such behavior...
...Throughout the slow, deliberate smolder that leads up to the shootings, all mass killers also tend to disengage from the people around them. More and more of their emotional energy becomes consumed with planning their assault and, tellingly, with what often appears to be a newfound fascination with firearms and other weapons. "The quiet is the problem," says Welner. "The anger and rage just get bigger and bigger and seep into a fantasy life, and the person becomes increasingly alienated and isolated and contemptuous...