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...just 65 in 2004, according to the Government Accountability Office. And what resources the nation's immigration police put toward enforcement were diverted after 9/11 to finding undocumented employees in security-sensitive sites such as airports and nuclear power plants--hardly the first places that illegal immigrants tend to look for work. On those rare occasions when employers are punished, the penalties are so small that they amount to little more than a cost of doing business. Both the Sensenbrenner bill and the draft the Senate is considering would increase sanctions and step up enforcement...
Most offenders share traits besides being accomplished, attractive and married. They tend to be socially naive and have a desperate need to be liked by their students, says University of Connecticut psychiatrist Catherine Lewis. That ultimately makes them unable to maintain proper teacher-student boundaries. And because they may lack the emotional maturity to negotiate age-appropriate relationships, being with a young boy feels less threatening to them. "They typically have had dysfunctional childhoods and poor relationships with their fathers as well as a pattern of abusive relationships," says Lewis. Whereas predatory male teachers often become involved with a series...
...problem with crying in public isn?t that it?s feminine or weak, it?s that weeping will never communicate as much as words. We tend to think of being caught crying in public as being exposed - a raw, unvarnished act. It is a way of being emotional, to be sure, yet crying can be a way of avoiding emotional complications; see Randy "Duke" Cunningham?s pre-indictment press conference, or Sen. Dick Durbin?s oddly excruciating apology for comparing Gitmo interrogators to the Nazis...
...Wiebe?s Russian Mennonite family fled the terrors of Stalin?s regime to become homesteaders in Canada. One of seven kids, Wiebe describes the labor of clearing trees in the ?boreal forest that wraps itself like an immense muffler around the shoulders of North America.? While Wiebe?s recollections tend to ramble and roam, he returns faithfully to the same characters: hard-working Mam and Pah, sickly sis Helen, older and distant brother Dan. Through memories, family sayings, and photographs, he recreates daily life: chores, trips to church, the three-mile trek to the schoolhouse, marriages and deaths, and more...
Sexual stereotypes are not the cause of sex differences; rather, in many respects, they are the result. A study in 2000 determined that children tend to play with sex-appropriate toys (i.e., boys with trucks; girls with dolls) regardless of societal or parental interference. The study’s conclusion? Sexual differences result not just from social pressure, but also from innate physical and hormonal makeup. The truth is somewhere between nature and nurture: men and women have been designed by some invisible, selective hand to tend to think and act differently, and these tendencies are hammered home...