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By contrast, as I recently pointed out in When Marriage Disappears, Americans without college degrees are divorcing at high rates, witnessing dramatic increases in nonmarital childbearing, and seeing their marital quality deteriorate.

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2012

A version of this article appeared April 12, 2012, on page A1 in some U.S. editions of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Bonding Experience Is Lost As a Traditional Gift Disappears.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2012

So far, his biggest seller is a tape from the Chicago band Disappears, which features Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth.

From Chicago Tribune • Jul. 12, 2011

A jolting contemporary-funk feel peppered with Binney's twisting alto-sax melodies is established from the opening Domino Effect, As the Moon Disappears reveals Escreet's broader sweep, through its slow strings moods and X-Files-like whistles.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2011

As described by William Julius Wilson in his book When Work Disappears, the overwhelming majority of African Americans in the 1970s lacked college educations and had attended racially segregated, underfunded schools lacking basic resources.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander