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Two competing narratives dominate our debate about the ongoing ethnic and demographic transformation of America. The first holds that non-European immigrants O.K., let's be honest, Mexicans will rip apart the nation's social fabric. The second has it that the diversity of younger generations of Americans will inevitably lead to a more integrated, postracial era.

But both of these narratives are off the mark. With some minor differences, today's immigrants are assimilating into U.S. society in ways not terribly unlike those of millions before them. At the same time, it's likely that decades from now, Americans will still invest a lot of meaning in group distinctions.

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The holidays offer plenty of reasons to be stressed out and anxious -- the gifts you havent wrapped, the pile of cookie exchange invites, the office parties. But for many, the biggest source of holiday stress is family -- the family dinner, the obligations, and the burden of family tradition. And if youre fighting clinical depression, or have had depression in the past, the holiday stress can be a trigger for more serious problems.

Women pregnant with their first child are no more likely to be frightened of giving birth than were first-time moms in years past, despite a growing focus on childbirth fears in the media and in medical research, Danish researchers say.

Dr. Maja Laursen of the University Hospital of Copenhagen and her team found that the percentage of women who reported "a lot" of anxiety about delivery held steady between 1997 and 2003, at about 7.5 percent.