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An expert predicts that the research could relegate today's Native Americans to "just another Ellis Island group" and threaten their hard-won legal rights.
But now the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate seems to be leveling off--reflecting, Chatterbox supposes, some hard-won equilibrium between teen-agers' greater use of contraceptives, on the one hand, and their greater disinclination to marry their high school sweethearts, on the other.
Where is all that hard-won cynicism that now marks the American character?
Armed with the hard-won discoveries I sacrificed my waistline for, you can go to your supermarket and confidently fill your shopping cart.
This is freedom hard-won, the fruit of wars and sacrifice and struggle.