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Madan Handa: Dowry would go up if girl wasn't married by 16 or 17, says sociology professor.
Madan Handa: Dowry would go up if girl wasn't married by 16 or 17, says sociology professor.

Madan Handa: Dowry would go up if girl wasn't married by 16 or 17, says sociology professor.

Date4/22/1981
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System questioned: Discrimination keeps many working class students out of university, says sociology professor David Livingstone, editor of a new book Critical Pedagogy And Cultural Power
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Matter of show: Some grooms' families don't even have to ask for a dowry, says Anver Garda of Indian Immigrant Aid Services - brides' families may offer all they have
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4/22/1981
Quiet moment: John Alan Lee, controversial professor of sociology at Scarborough Campus, works on a piece of sculpture at Scarborough
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The coffee man: At the age of 78, Alex Fedchak is turning in his coffee wagon. It's been nice, he says. I wouldn't put up with the same place for 50 years if it wasn't.
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Men fall in love faster and give it up more reluctantly than women, says Sam Luker, clinical psychologist and professor of family studies at the University of Guelph
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7/12/1984
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