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More poor live in suburbs than in urban areas, research shows
Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis. As poverty mounted throughout the nation over the past decade, the number of poor people living in...
Tags: Hofstra University, Business Institutions, Brookings Institution, Social Issues, Poverty
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Hedda Bolgar dies at 103; renowned psychoanalyst
Hedda Bolgar, a psychologist old enough to have attended Sigmund Freud's lectures in Vienna but youthful enough to have treated patients until just a few weeks ago, has died. She was 103. Her mind was sharp, her zest for work keen, and her social...
Tags: Sigmund Freud, Hospitals and Clinics, Zurich (Swiss Confederation), Religion and Belief, Medical Specialization
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Everyone on Earth is related to everyone else, DNA shows
The history of Europe is written in its people's DNA. The Huns and the Slavs made incursions into Eastern Europe about 1,500 years ago. Migrants moved from Ireland to England in recent centuries. Populations in Italy and Spain have been comparatively...
Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Biology, Italy, Medical Research, University of California, Davis
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Global Voices: Pleas for Korean peace 60 years after fighting ended
A conference to promote peace between communist and capitalist adversaries might sound like an antiquated notion in the post-Cold War era. But in this 60th anniversary year of the signing of the Korean War armistice, which suspended the fighting but...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, North Korea, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest, Labor Legislation
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Recent and Recommended
A look at some recent and recommended books: FICTION Claire Messud's "The Woman Upstairs" (Random House, $25.95) thrums with the fury of a middle-aged woman whose dormant creative impulses are awakened when she forges a friendship-verging-on-obsession...
Tags: Literature, Arts and Culture
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At Boston service, Obama keeps a hopeful tone
WASHINGTON — President Obama's message was one so imbued with hope that it actually ended with a promise that the sun will come out tomorrow. "The sun will rise over Boston," Obama declared Thursday in his first extended remarks about the bombings...
Tags: Sports, Politics, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
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David Axelrod writing autobiography
The architect of President Obama’s political narrative has a new story to tell: His own. David Axelrod, Obama’s longtime confidant and former strategist, will write a “personal biography of his professional life,” according to...
Tags: David Axelrod, Literature, Chicago Tribune, Arts and Culture, Barack Obama
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For the record
Japanese garden: In the April 6 Saturday section, an information box with an article about the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden in Pasadena gave incomplete information for an April 28 Garden Conservancy tour. A ticket package for all six homes on the tour... -
Roger Ebert dies at 70; Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers to...
Tags: Independent (Movie Genre), Television, Newspapers, Ebertfest, Television Stations
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The winner of the Obama presidential library: Chicago or Hawaii?
Future historians of the Barack Obama presidency, where would you rather travel? To that perpetually sunny corner of Polynesia where our 44th president was born? Or to the windy city on Lake Michigan he most recently called home? Barack Obama’s...
Tags: Politics, Elections, Political Fundraising, Education, POLITICO LLC
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While most Americans shun guns, the fearful keep buying more
This post has been corrected. See note below.Here’s a riddle: If gun ownership is declining, why are so many guns being sold? According to the General Social Survey, a project of the independent research organization NORC, the number of U.S. households with guns dropped from 50% in 1973 to...Tags: Politics, September 11, 2001 Attacks, National Rifle Association of America, Radio, Firearms
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Gun owners most often cite protection as reason for having a firearm
This post has been corrected. See note below.In America’s debate over gun policy, one of the sharpest divides separates those who believe a gun at home makes them safer from those who believe that gun ownership would put them at risk. Increasingly, gun owners cite protection, rather than...Tags: Politics, Gun Control, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Rentals
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