But hey: It's better than not being pretty at all, right?

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Children account for more than one-third of all such people in the U.S. right now.

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"Oh, he's all right if you don't just expect him to love you any better than a family tea set, " was all the comfort my father could give me.

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It's more right than wrong is that we've got a tax system, we tinker with it all the time, but apart from big recessions, it tends to produce about 18 and a half percent of the GDP.

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"Despite all of Michigan's economic difficulties right now, values are holding better in Ann Arbor than they are in most any other markets, " he says.

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But if the right lessons are learned by all involved, there is less reason to despair than Indonesia's censorious editorial writers would have the nation, and the world, believe.

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