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More than half the women with babies younger than one are in the work force, according to census figures, and increasing numbers of them want to breast-feed their infants. Numerous scientific studies have suggested that breast milk is vastly superior to formula, not only for the mother's and child's basic health but also possibly for the child's early brain development. Given the evidence and lots of work by public health authorities, breast-feeding rates have climbed more than 16% in the past decade (although they are still lower than in nearly all developed countries...
...unfortunates left behind to mind the store are left with scant new material to fill their daily or weekly slate. Print leans heavily on "evergreen" profiles, loosely pegged features, and shoe-leather research pieces like the New York Times' barrage of census stories. One of those landed so high on the page last week that Scott Shuger, longtime author of Slate's Today's Papers, dubbed it "an August news drought classsic." Television, meanwhile, scours the arid landscape for naturally sprouting (and hopefully telegenic) phenomena like the heat, sharks, or Al Gore's beard. On a good day, says Washington...
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, Jersey Diners (Rutgers Univ. Press), Nat'l Assoc. of Insurance Commissioners, Passaic County Historical Society
...this case, is what divides the U.S. into 435 congressional districts. Every ten years, using new census information, legislatures across the country redraw lines for their states? congressional districts to accommodate shifts in population. What changes did the 2000 count turn up? The new numbers reveal a continuing shift of population from the Northeast to the South and West. For example, New York and Pennsylvania, both Democrat-friendly states, lost two congressional seats each. Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Mississippi are also losing one seat each. On the other hand, Republican-friendly states like Arizona, Texas, Florida...
...retiring or dying. So if the congressional lines for a district are drawn in a way that concentrates more voters from one party, the incumbent from that party is practically guaranteed his seat for at least 10 years, or until the lines are redrawn after the next census...