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Meanwhile, fewer boys than girls take the SAT. Fewer boys than girls apply to college. Fewer boys than girls, in annual surveys of college freshmen, express a passion for learning. And fewer boys than girls are earning college degrees. Even sperm counts are falling. "It's true at every level of society" that boys are stumbling behind, Sommers continued...
...lowest on record. When I was in high school, more than half of all senior boys told researchers they had downed five or more drinks in a row within the previous two weeks--a number that I have no trouble believing. By last year, that figure was fewer than...
...doesn't make military or economic sense to launch the draft, what about the notion of fairness? Critics have claimed that minorities are over-represented in the all-volunteer military because they have fewer options in the civilian world. The CBO disputes that, saying that "members of the armed forces are racially and ethnically diverse." African Americans accounted for 13% of active-duty recruits in 2005, just under their 14% share of 17-to-49-year-olds in the overall U.S. population. And minorities are not being used as cannon fodder. "Data on fatalities indicate that minorities are not being...
...authors estimated that 2,200 fewer elderly Americans would die each year from heart attacks, congestive heart failure, and pneumonia in the 3,720-surveyed hospitals if the death rates at the lowest-ranked hospitals matched those at the top-performing ones...
McLoughlin and UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 did not offer strong sentiments as to whether they believed fewer students would opt-out of the fee as a result of the new policy. McLoughlin reported that 205 people had elected to forgo the fee as of Wednesday...