The rate among white high school graduates, by contrast, has declined slightly since 2008.

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The picture is even bleaker for slightly younger men: High-school graduates 20 to 24 years old had an unemployment rate of 18.9%.

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The lutetium oxide from which the crystals are made (in only a slightly updated process from the way we all made copper sulphate crystals in high school chemistry classes) all came from China.

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