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...population dynamics. For example, we tend to think a country's crime rate results from a complex mix of social factors, and it does. But it often traces mainly to a single population statistic: the number of young men between 15 and 30 years of age, the population cohort that tends to be responsible for the most crime...
...Toennesson also gives Ahtisaari?s cohort in the process, Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a 20% chance of taking the prize because he actually signed the deal. Human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer gets a 15% odds of winning for her leadership of the minority Uyghur population in northwest China...
...research, which was also published in last week's Archives of Internal Medicine, was part of the large Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, which has tracked the sleep patterns of more than 1,400 men and women since 1988. The subjects are brought into a lab every four years for a full evaluation of their sleep habits. Having undergone one of those overnight polysomnographies, I can tell you that they are no fun. Researchers attach little electrical leads all over your body-including your eyelids-to measure brain activity, eye and muscle movement, leg movement, airflow, chest and abdominal movement, heart...
...university education works. Although I am told she is British, I took a degree from Oxbridge, and I cannot say I recognize those esteemed universities in the caricature she presents. Oxbridge undergrads and grad students enjoyed a healthy social life with all sorts of people, not just their entryway cohort, at least in my experience of less than 10 years ago. Merely being part of the same college gave most of us all the excuse we needed to socialize with the few hundred other students who lived around us. And for those who sought other outlets, the great array...
...this year’s cohort of wide-eyed freshmen take up their places at Harvard, they will find that the teeming chaos of campus gradually resolves itself into a clearer set of courses, extracurriculars, and social organizations. Simply put, you will—hopefully—discover an interest, a way to pursue it and, like a well-behaved oil slick, spread out and be absorbed by your new habitat. But some people believe that this is not enough. By some mysterious consensus students seem to agree that Harvard lacks any sense of Community – a term...