... habits and lifestyles of people make it increasingly necessary that both parents work. Indeed, for many other reasons as well it became beneficial for women to join the workforce. As Allan Bloom, the late political philosopher from the University of Chicago, wrote: "Women's abandonment of the female persona was reinforced by the persona's abandoning them. Economic changes made it desirable and ... questions such as who goes with who' if career paths lead in different directions. But most importantly, it leaves the question of caring for children largely unresolved. I wonder along with A...

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... that prolonged prosperity has finally provided more jobs in poor minority neighborhoods, "so people now see other people working and they get the message that work pays, crime doesn't." James Allan Fox, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University, cautioned that Americans might be becoming too complacent after seven consecutive years of declining crime. "What goes down will go up," Fox said ... ...

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... to transfer inner-city black students to suburban schools that were predominately white. The backlash against preferential treatment for minorities became even more public in a Supreme Court case in 1978. Allan Bakke, a white man, claimed that a quota reserving places for minority applicants was responsible for the rejection of his application to medical school in California. The court ordered his admission, arguing ... ...

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... to grab federal funding" (Eric Hellweg). As with any new technology, hydrogen has the potential to be an environmental problem if it's not developed properly. An environmental report produced by Allan Dowd warned "Fuel-cell cars could lose their green environmental halo if the companies developing them choose the wrong way to power the new technology Fuel cells convert hydrogen into ... ...

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