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While most Cambridge residents stayed indoors after a snowstorm this past January, others braved the chill to find out how many Cantabrigians were left outside in the cold.An annual census counting Cambridge’s homeless population found 36 people sleeping on the city’s streets on the night of Jan. 23, five fewer than last year’s count. Staff from the Cambridge and Somerville Program for Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation (CASPAR), which operates Cambridge’s only overnight emergency shelter for those under the influence of drugs and alcohol, conducted the city?...
...tools were census records, property tax records, baptismal records, birth and death certificates, wills—virtually anything that the series’ staff of professional genealogists could get its hands on. Gates described the research as “an extraordinarily painstaking process...
...From Afghanistan to Egypt, not one country that has had an election in the past year has emerged more stable as a result of the experience. In Iraq, three elections-the last one little more than a "census," in the words of Iraqi journalist Nibras Kazimi-have increased the probability of partition or civil war and installed a corrupt, Iran-leaning government of religious conservatives, which will undoubtedly remain in power when the new "permanent" government is formed. In Afghanistan, elections have brought narco-warlords to positions of significant power. Even the Potemkin elections in Saudi Arabia and Egypt resulted...
...Straight, Cohen, Moskowitz, Toussaint, and others—a word-of-mouth search found 11 current Harvard seniors who are engaged—do not a trend make. Over the last few decades, people in the United States have started to marry later, according to statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau. The median age at first marriage was 20.8 for women and 23.2 for men in 1970, 23.9 for women and 26.1 for men in 1990, and has increased to 25.3 for women...
...According to 2000 U.S. Census, 32.5 percent of Louisiana’s population is black...