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The U.S. economy has long been geared to two-income families; many families could not afford a middle-class life-style without both parents working. The real median income of parents under age 30 fell more than 24% from 1973 to 1987, according to a study by the Children's...
Don't worry. That peculiar odor you have been noticing in the morning is not burning toast. It is the smell of panic -- plump and juicy egos sizzling on a very hot griddle -- at NBC's Today show. Since the end of December, when Deborah Norville replaced Jane Pauley as...
Afghanistan. Of all Moscow's Third World client states, only Afghanistan shares a Soviet border. Hence, it is the sole client to pose an immediate security problem. That fact helps explain Moscow's continued patronage for the Najibullah regime in Kabul, despite the Soviet withdrawal of its occupying forces from...
Students have protested throughout this academic year, but Steven R. Donziger, one of the campaign leaders, hopes the current effort better "translates the outcry into specific policy proposals."
This hatred translates into death and forced poverty for the count's sons. When it escalates into the count's incestuous encounter with his own daughter, his wife and children band together to murder the wicked patriarch.