"They came in three years behind and they made a year-and-a-half of progress, but they're still behind," she said.
But Hickson is equally fascinated by the price that has to be paid for living through a century and a half of accelerating progress: in particular, she shows the career-driven, uncompromising May becoming habituated to loneliness and to a sense of estrangement from the activist Amy who, as her three-letter name implies, represents her other self.
WASHINGTON — President Obama stepped into the space on Wednesday where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once stood, summoning his iconic dream of a colorblind society in a celebration of a half-century of progress and a call to arms for the next generation.
We have had two and a half years of progress that have seen science funding protected in cash terms.
The U.S. must take further steps to end an epidemic that lingers on despite a half century of progress.
But now, after a half century of progress, thanks in large measure to Planned Parenthood, some Republicans seem determined to try to march us backwards - and seem determined to make a circus out of trying to shut down the organization.
As my colleague Peter Baker reported, President Obama paid homage to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Wednesday "in a celebration of a half-century of progress and a call to arms for the next generation".
Getting there required a year and a half of hard work and gradual progress.
Two ERMAs were preserved; one is at the Smithsonian in Washington DC and the other at Bank of America's Technology Center in Concord, CA. My time with ERMA lasted only two years but the hands-on experience remains a vivid memory, even with a half-century of progress clamoring to dull my senses.
A new Report will highlight a half-century of progress in tobacco control and prevention, as well as present new data on the health consequences of tobacco use.
The commemorators have every right to blend somber and light as they mark a half-century of progress.
