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...intertwined that it is almost impossible to claim that one is dominant over the other. Ridley speculated that it may be the way our minds work that has sustained this perennial debate. It has been true that when we analyze body and mind or determinism and free will, we tend to create dichotomies where none exist. It is often hard to see the gray areas between the false extremes that we have come to believe are real. ALLAN SALTZMAN Hamden, Conn...
...last year. They also shelled out $4 billion in remittance fees, or about 12.5% of the money they sent--nearly 50% more than what Turks pay to wire funds from Germany or Filipinos pay to send money from the Persian Gulf. Latin American migrant workers pay more because they tend to steer clear of banks in their home countries as well as abroad. In Mexico, for example, only 1 in 5 citizens has a bank account. Unstable local currencies don't help matters, nor does the memory of mid-century bracero contracts, which temporarily withheld 10% of the wages...
...friend Sara Ehrman when Hillary Rodham decides to abandon a promising legal career in Washington and follow young Bill Clinton to Arkansas. "Why on earth would you throw away your future?" It is the central question of her life. Her answer is simple: she loves the guy. I tend to believe her; others will be more cynical. I believe her because of the way she describes her husband's hands and his shimmering intelligence and also because of the way she describes her parents--who are nearly as roughhewn as Bill's notoriously trashy family but far more proper...
...rudimentary onscreen-editing features are handy. But since the RW2U supports only the DVD-RW (rewritable) and DVDR formats, it lacks some of the advanced playback features on the Panasonic DMRs. On the other hand, since the RW format is more popular than the RAM format, the discs tend to be cheaper (about $4 each vs. $5 or more for a DVD-RAM), easier to find and compatible with other players...
...Because most of the 3 million people who find themselves in C.-and-R. centers each year belong to the country's floating population of migrant laborers?the lowest of the low in China's quickly re-emerging class pyramid?abuses tend to be overlooked except in the most egregious cases. Although several of these instances have made it into the national press, they rarely elicit calls for reform...