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Furthermore, as reported recently by USA Today, 80 percent of 10th graders expected to attend college in 2003, a 21 percent increase from 1990. Again, this change in American culture correlates with a common perception that American Jews are more likely to receive a college degree than...
...same token, several studies have suggested that older folks who are socially active?who, for example, do volunteer work or attend religious services?have a reduced risk of dementia. There are, of course, plenty of caveats that go along with those observations, including the same old chicken-or-egg problem that haunts all observational studies: In this case, is withdrawal from society a cause or result of Alzheimer's disease...
...their WTA ranking, but we feel proudest when we do something good for our province or our country." Such national spirit is rare in the hyper-competitive world of pro tennis, but it's not surprising: the Chinese women's squad, like all other athletes in China, has to attend patriotic education classes as part of their national-team training...
...Chinese tennis federation has taken halting steps toward opening up. In order to match the women's talents with equally top-notch training, the federation has brought in foreign coaches for short-term stints. In 2003, the sports authority also allowed wunderkind Peng to attend the prestigious Evert Tennis Academy in Florida. "She excelled very quickly," recalls John Cappo, managing director of IMG China, who has acted as Peng's agent. "In China, coaches focus on punishment and point out players' faults. We convinced her that she's a winner, and she started acting like one." Peng transformed from...
...freedom to choose exactly how they want to spend their free time? Thankfully, the debate about calendar change and a J-Term has died down. It appears that the Harvard Corporation—the body which must ultimately approve any calendar change—has more pressing matters to attend to. Stopping the calendar change process has also stopped speculation on the future of a J-Term at Harvard. We hope this pause is indefinite, as the unique advantages our schedule offers now are hard to duplicate with any other allocation of class time...