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...According to Cambridge Energy Research Associates, our monthly expenses on gasoline amounted, on average, to only 3.8% of total household budget in 2006. Yet amid all the confusing data on the state of the U.S. economy, what we spend at the local service station is the most tangible way for consumers to measure the value of their dollar...
...athletic administration was “scrambling” to hire a black coach. Assuming he has been offered the job, Amaker’s decision to accept or decline might be heavily influenced by his wife and her career. “Any decision made in the Amaker household is a joint decision and I’m not the coach of that team,” Amaker said in a 2001 interview with the Michigan Daily. His wife, Stephanie Pinder-Amaker, is currently a clinical psychologist who was Associate Dean of Students at Michigan and is expected...
...Globe also reported that Amaker’s wife, Dr. Stephanie Pinder-Amaker, is expected to join the Harvard faculty. In a 2001 interview with the Michigan Daily, Amaker issued the following quote: “Any decision made in the Amaker household is a joint decision and I'm not the coach of that team...
...hope [the study] will make people realize that suicide is in fact a preventable public health problem,” said Matthew Miller, an assistant professor of Health Policy and Management and lead author of the study. This was the first study to examine the relationship between household firearm ownership rates and successful suicide attempts on a national level, he said. Joe Waldron, the executive director of the Citzens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, said that he does not believe suicide rates are linked to gun ownership rates, and that he was wary of the study...
...Raku Yoshida, a 33-year-old father of two, works in an airline's reservations office in Tokyo. So that he can spend as much time as possible with his children, he gets up at 5 a.m. to answer e-mails and tackle household chores. His reward is being able to wake up his children for breakfast and an hour of play before he heads to the office. The working day normally ends by 7 p.m. because Yoshida took the radical step, in 2005, of asking his employer for a less demanding job. (Prior to that, he notched...