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Eradicating Carrie Buck in Iceland

  In 1927, a young woman named Carrie Buck lived at a place called “the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded.” Carrie was 17 years old and had been born with a disability that led the superintendent of the “Colony,” Dr. Albert Sidney Priddy, to...

Poverty, the Denver Post and Ebenezer Scrooge

The Denver Post published an interesting article this week outlining the results of a poll on the causes of poverty. In the poll, respondents were essentially asked, If a person is poor, which is more likely to blame: lack of effort on their own part, or difficult...

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