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From:Journal of Asian Medical Student Association (Vol. 3, Issue S1) Peer-ReviewedEach year, some 12,000 Filipinos, (or 120 per one-million population) develop kidney failure, pushing end-stage renal disease into the 9th spot of the top 10 leading causes of mortality in the Philippines. Arising from...
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From:New Zealand Journal of Psychology (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRelationships between work overload and parental demands with work-family conflict were investigated among New Zealand and Malaysian academics. In addition, social support from the work and family domains were explored...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 54, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedGhosts are rude, always coming back at the worst times, saying the hardest things. Or maybe "rude" is the wrong word: maybe in the passion of haunting, ghosts are oblivious to the harm they're still capable of causing...
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From:Antigonish Review (Issue 158) Peer-ReviewedPearl preferred her parents safely confined to the silver frames on her dressing table, but she couldn't always dissuade or forbid them from coming to visit. As the day of their arrival approached and the pressure...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 83, Issue 1)Every spring, when the bright yellow, starry flutes of forsythia Suddenly burst out from the dull monotones that are all February And March can muster, always the same lilting ostinato , always The same and always a...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 36, Issue 1)Kenya, Africa. Africa! Nine thousand miles from Portland. My wayward son Tim walks toward me with four tall, dark-as-midnight women. He has seen me, I'm quite sure of it, but nothing about his gait changes. He arrives...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 36, Issue 2-3)The notification came on a weekend, and Jake's, in Iceland, had gotten through first. Sarah was in a desert, her cell phone wasn't working well, and she had to go back to the base to find out what was wrong. She...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 84, Issue 2)The last time I saw Jodi was in downtown Manhattan, off Houston Street, during Ronald Reagan's second term. Through the SoHo crowd, I heard my foster sister call my name. Full-hipped, thick-waisted, Jodi stood about...
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From:The Kenyon Review (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI am more than half the age of my father, who has lived more than twice as long as his father, who died at thirty-six. Once a year for four days I am two years older than my wife, until her birthday. In practical terms...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 84, Issue 3)The luxury of summer after graduation, no eight-track blaring Cat Stevens up the walk. Long days stretching from the porch to the street, with the shadow of my brother and me in a photograph. If I could see time from...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 85, Issue 1)I faked it. Spoke some gibberish. Hated the preacher, who was my grandmother, how she made me stay down on my knees, say thank you, Jesus until I was delirious, clap my hands to the beat. Having more than one tongue...
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From:Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAs his congregation sang praises to the Lord, Bertrand Lucious let his body go and prepared his hands for the power of healing. But it did not come. By the time he and his wife had walked the thirteen blocks to their...
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From:Social Policy Journal of New Zealand (Issue 35) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article reports on findings from a multi-method study on long working hours and their impact on family life. It draws on data from the New Zealand 2006 Census, a review of the literature, and a small...
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From:Career Development Quarterly (Vol. 57, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis annual review of the research and practice literature related to career counseling and development during 2007 is presented in 9 areas: professional issues, career assessment, career development, career theory and...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 81, Issue 3)i.m. Jai Dev Chandhok, 1907-2003 This time, I take the ashes and the bones in both my hands and hold them. It's raining, and we're knee deep in the Ganges, soaked to the skin and holding him who has none. The bones are...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThat our true stories may be violent, distasteful, painful, stunning, and haunting, I do not doubt. But our true stories will be literature. --Dorothy Allison, "Believing in Literature" Incest has had a long...
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From:Social Policy Journal of New Zealand (Issue 32) Peer-ReviewedAbstract While ethnicity, as collected in surveys in New Zealand, is a personal attribute not a group measure, there is some demand from the policy community and researchers for measures of family ethnicity. Yet both...
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From:Theatre Research in Canada (Vol. 26, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedLilith is with her son, Ben, in the kitchen of her home, following the funeral of her husband, who died after a long illness. Ben is writing in a notebook. Lilith is always in constant motion--dancing. She also carries...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 68, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIN THE EARLY months of 1732, Colonel Christian Lilly received a remarkable letter on behalf of the Widow Owen of Berwick asking him to investigate the recent death of one "Doctor Owen" in Jamaica. Doctor Owen, a...