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...seem to have been lost on this generation of sexually active young adults. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a rise in cases of early-stage syphilis last year (up 29% from 2000, largely among gay men) and chlamydia (up nearly 6% since 2003). By contrast, rates of gonorrhea dipped to their lowest level since 1941, when record-keeping began...
...tunnel under the Charles River, extending an abandoned T tunnel from the Square to the Harvard athletic facilities, was “most challenging.” “It’s not so appealing for bicyclists and pedestrians,” she said. In contrast, planners said last spring that constructing the tunnel might be less controversial than other proposals to build a new bridge or expand the Larz Anderson bridge, because a tunnel would not change the aesthetics of the Charles River. Spiegelman also said at Monday’s meeting that if new undergraduate Houses...
...economy that is held down by powerful unions and restrictive legislation. Together, the distorted incentives produced by such a system account for the fact that the total number of work hours is only one half of what it would have been if all working-age French were employed. In contrast the labor supply ratio in the U.S. is 20 percent higher, indicating the sharp advantage the American economy has when it comes to its worker productivity...
...contrast to France, the U.S. has over the years proved enormously successful in promoting long-run integration of immigrants into the American society and economy. In contrast to Arab-French immigrants, the Latino immigrants in the U.S. experience a wider range of economic opportunities that serve as powerful attractors, promising economic rewards regardless of one’s country of origin, ethnicity, or race...
...core of American immigrants’ success is a free market economy, which values productivity, innovation, and fair competition. In contrast, the same forces that hurt the French economy today also hurt the most vulnerable of its citizens—the immigrants, who are excluded economically, socially, and politically. President Chirac’s plans to expand public spending and create even more rigidities in an attempt to help the disenfranchised are likely to backfire. Ultimately, it is a free and prosperous economy that creates jobs for those needing them most; the best thing the French government...