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Numerous studies have analyzed the effects of family structure, composition, and resources on socioeconomic status attainment. Fewer studies have explored how these family-based factors affect the variation—or the correlation—between siblings in socioeconomic status. The current study draws on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and provides a descriptive account of the correlations between siblings along a number of family composition and resource dimensions. We report two main findings. First, correlations do not vary by siblings' sex mix. That is, brothers' correlations in education, earnings, and family income are similar to sisters’ correlations. Second, siblings from relatively disadvantaged families—those with more siblings and lower educated, younger, and unmarried mothers—have lower correlations in socioeconomic status than siblings from more advantaged families. In general, family background has a weaker effect on adults who begin life from disadvantaged positions. These findings suggest that social reproduction and mobility processes are complex and shaped by family-level dynamics and resources

Not performing an autopsy of Ms. [Bhutto] ''was a severe mistake, especially in the light of past problems with the murders of national leaders,'' because it will fuel speculation, said Dr. Michael M. Baden, who is a top forensic official for the New York State Police as well as a former New York City chief medical examiner. Seven doctors, but no forensic pathologist, signed Ms. Bhutto's medical report. None were ''trained to pick up the finer points of gunshot wounds'' and other causes of criminal deaths, Dr. Baden said. For example, her doctors said they did not feel a bullet or foreign body, but did not probe for evidence of one. ''With [John F. Kennedy], the treating doctors were wrong about the entrance and exit wounds'' of the bullet-damaged skull, said Dr. Baden, who was chairman of the forensic pathology panel of the House of Representatives select committees on the assassinations of Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Bucket List [Motion Picture] -- Einhorn's pioneering treatment of testicular cancer in the 1970s increased survival rates from 10% to more than 95%, and he led the medical team that treated and cured cyclist Lance Armstrong. Armstrong was in his 20s when diagnosed and suffered from a less aggressive germ cell tumor (an embryonal cell carcinoma or yolk sac tumor) that had spread to his brain and was treated with surgery and chemotherapy

David Oshinsky reviews the book "Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning" by Jonah Goldberg