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...BREAST CANCER 4% Drop, between 2000 and 2005, in the percentage of U.S. women age 40 and older who reported having a mammogram in the previous two years. In a 2000 survey, 70% of women had had one; five years later, only 66% had 28% Increase in breast-cancer-research spending by the National Cancer Institute over the same five years, topping $560 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...Even in Japan, the market appears to have limits. Kei sales in April fell 6.4% from a year earlier, the first drop in 16 months. The slump is unlikely to last, however. "Over the long term the minicar market is expected to grow continuously," says Tsuyoshi Mochimaru, an auto analyst for Deutsche Securities in Tokyo. When a country's population shrinks, apparently so do its cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking Car Market | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...Percentage-point drop in women age 40 and older who reported having a mammogram in the previous two years; the percentage fell from 70% of women asked in 2000 to 66% of women asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: May 28, 2007 | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...shocked by "Stopping the Exodus," about the challenge of keeping students in school [May 14]. I commend you for making it known that many students drop out of school. I am an eighth-grader at a private school--and no, my teacher did not put me up to writing this. Where I come from, it's considered a tragedy if students do not get into their top choice for college, and they are condemned for settling for their second choice. Thank you for giving me some perspective on the experience of those students whose goal is not getting into college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: May 28, 2007 | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

After 47 years in education, I am not surprised that ninth-grade students drop out of public schools, as did one of my grandsons. The problem started many years ago, when junior high schools were dropped in favor of middle schools. We need to return to having junior high serve Grades 7 through 9 and high school serve Grades 10 through 12. Sixth-graders are not ready for middle school; they are still immature. And ninth-graders struggling with the transition into their teen years face similar problems. Let's reconsider how we group students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: May 28, 2007 | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

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