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...school students (or 31 percent) binge drink at least once a month. And, for the first time ever, those numbers are equal for boys and girls. (Bingeing is defined as getting drunk repeatedly over the course of one or two days). Forty percent of ninth graders (male and female) admit to drinking at least occasionally, and 81 percent of all high school students have consumed alcohol at some point...
However, the counter-protesters did not hold the monopoly on ignorance. I freely admit that I was mistaken in thinking I knew what the counter-protesters stood for. I figured that if the protesters were pro-human rights and anti-occupation, then surely the counter-protesters must have been anti-human rights and pro-occupation? They were, after all, staging a loud and angry counter-protest intending to discredit the Palestinian rights supporters...
...International Math Olympiad, but only averaged 7.6 points per game on varsity basketball in high school. This one didn’t even make it past the national math competition, but scored 10 per game on varsity basketball, and what a shotblocker! Let’s admit...
...Pasteur Institute sued the United States. The French claimed Gallo had stolen their virus to mass produce the antibody test. But the American antibody test, which used Gallo’s genetic sequence, produced false negatives at an alarming rate. Not only was Gallo wrong, but he refused to admit that he had made a mistake. As a result, Crewdson suggests that Gallo is single-handedly responsible for delaying the development of an accurate HIV test...
...bailout of struggling Daiei Inc., a retailing giant that needs $3 billion from its main creditor banks to stay afloat.) This kind of propping up and bailing out is expensive: healthier parts of the economy and eager entrepreneurs get starved for loans. Until 1998, Tokyo couldn't even admit how bad its banks' balance sheets were: it had no money in its deposit insurance fund. (Filling that up cost $142 billion in 1998.) Within three years, it had sunk $600 billion in a recapitalization plan that was too little, too late...