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After nearly two decades of free-fall decline, are more traditional American values making a comeback? According to a mid-decade report on American household characteristics issued last week by the U.S. Census Bureau, the signals are mixed. While some experts believe that families are stabilizing, the average household size continues to decline and the number of people living alone is up dramatically...
Which brings us back to asking why a ballroom contest is so popular. Census figures quickly dispel my first theory--that the median age of Americans is actually 73. Still, there is no other prime-time show so determinedly unhip. Where American Idol has Ryan Seacrest, Dancing has Hollywood Squares' Tom Bergeron. Where Idol's Simon Cowell snipes put-downs, judge Len Goodman has such quaint British diction you could imagine him reporting from London during the Blitz. The theatrics and costumes (former New Kid on the Block Joey McIntyre jived in a G.I. outfit) would embarrass an Ice Capades...
Their hand-to-mouth existence is not uncommon in Cambridge, despite the last Census estimate that the city’s median family income is nearly $60,000 a year...
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau; New York Times; USA Today; drugstore.com USA Today (2); Wall Street Journal...
...realm of college admissions, Asian Americans usually are not given any special considerations, Wei said. He added that common explanations include references to the group’s high academic achievement and its overrepresentation. Asians are just 3.5 percent of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. 2000 census...