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...earlier this year, when the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research center in New York City, released the results of a 37-country study. Its findings: the U.S. leads nearly all other developed nations in its incidence of pregnancy among girls ages 15 through 19. As a point of comparison, AGI investigators looked at five other Western countries in detail: Sweden, Holland, France, Canada and Britain (see chart). Though American adolescents were no more sexually active than their counterparts in these countries, they were found to be many times as likely to become pregnant. And while black teenagers...
...might imagine, the biggest downside of the single-use camcorder is video quality. It's not painful by any means, but it blurs in comparison to today's $600 digital camcorders. The picture is no sharper than that of a VHS tape. The good news is that both the color reproduction and white balance seem to be better, and in good lighting it captured action very nicely. In any event, my low expectations were met and bested...
...former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as "a dealmaking pragmatist [who] may push to repair ties with the U.S. " Viewing Rafsanjani as pragmatic is dangerous, since that is an example of seeing the political landscape of totalitarian countries through the U.S.'s democratic eyes. Rafsanjani is pragmatic in comparison with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei in the same way that the Soviet Union's Nikita Khrushchev was pragmatic in comparison with Joseph Stalin. Klein should recall that the Cuban missile crisis, during which the world was brought to the brink of nuclear war, occurred under the Soviet...
...comparison to media coverage, defense attorneys emphasized Pring-Wilson’s Harvard connection less often—though they mentioned his fluency in five languages and his proficiency at rugby—because of fears that local resentment towards Harvard would bias the jury against Pring-Wilson...
While Yale has also achieved impressive returns using outside management, Meyer says size is far less of a problem for the Bulldogs. Yale has the second-largest university endowment at $12.7 billion, but it pales in comparison to Harvard’s $22.6 billion. For Harvard, Meyer says, increased competition for external funds has ensured that achieving Harvard’s current performance under a fully external system would be “very difficult...