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...pervasive is the gender gap? According to Thomas Mortenson, an education analyst in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the share of college degrees earned by males has been declining for decades. U.S. government figures show that from 1970 to 1996, as the number of bachelor's degrees earned by women increased 77%, the number earned by men rose 19%. Not all schools are feeling the imbalance; many ?lite colleges and universities have seen applications soar from both sexes. But the overall numbers, says Mortenson, should make us "wake up and see that boys are in trouble...
...more arrests and fewer suspects, we'd have a better idea why," said HUPD spokesperson and crime analyst Peggy A. McNamara...
...general, Bob Butterworth, Gore's Florida campaign chairman, who once made a joke about the problem of convicts' catching fire in Florida's electric chair. That mix ought to make Florida a more cooperative place during radioactive disputes like the recount. But in reality, says University of Florida political analyst Richard Scher, it has made the state a dysfunctional place in crises--a warning to the rest of the nation, he adds, about the pitfalls of centrism. "When the parties are as intellectually bankrupt as they are in this state today," says Scher, "it leaves the politicians with little...
...what some experts call the most difficult airline integration in the history of North America. "Trying to improve service while merging the operations of Air Canada and Canadian Airlines is like attempting to douse a fire while an open pipeline of fuel is poured on it," says HSBC Securities analyst Ted Larkin. Air Canada, with a workforce of 23,000, and slightly smaller Canadian, which was bleeding $1.35 million a day, had "computer reservation systems that didn't talk to each other," says Milton, and workers accustomed to "beating each other to death." Milton made a very public commitment...
...exchanges to profit. And then there's always the possibility that, like the big automakers, small businesses in the same field could band together and establish their own exchanges, relying less on the dotcoms. It's unlikely this will happen anytime soon, according to Melissa Shore, a senior analyst at Jupiter Research. "The reason proprietary exchanges work with the big automakers is that they dominate the marketplace and suppliers have to come to play," she says. "Small businesses still don't have enough power or money to make that happen...