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Bloodchild and Other Stories

[an error occurred while processing this directive] Go to Chapter One Section • Go to Book World's Review Bloodchild and Other Stories By Octavia E. Butler Chapter One: Bloodchild My last night…
PUBLISHED: May 12, 1997
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7100 words)

Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America

By Chana Joffe-WaltIn the past three decades, the number of Americans who are on disability has skyrocketed. The rise has come even as medical advances have allowed many more people to remain on the…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4267 words)
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Why is British public life dominated by men?

I don't know when the breaking point came. Was it the 2010 election, in which the most prominent women on the national stage seemed to be the leaders' wives? Was it a drip, drip, drip of Question…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 4, 2011
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3179 words)

Her Honor

(Photo: Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States) The inside of the ceremonial courtroom of the United States Supreme Court—where formal oral arguments are heard from October…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 27, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (795 words)
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