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11 posted on 05/19/2010 10:50:57 AM PDT by Amberdawn (As you go through life brother, whatever your goal, keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.)

Where did they get these figures, the greater Soviet
Encyclopedia?

28 posted on 05/19/2010 10:54:44 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)

As usual, there's a nugget right at the end of the article:

There were also social factors, the study found. "In African-American families there is a much larger extended network of kin as well as other obligations. From other work we've done we know that there's more call on the resources of relatively well-off African-American families; that they lend money that's not given back; they help cousins go to school. They help brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, with all kinds of legal and family problems," said Shapiro.

142 posted on 05/19/2010 12:13:03 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")