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According to an online survey conducted by University Health Services (UHS) last spring that drew an undergraduate response rate of 40 percent, nearly half of all respondents (47 percent) reported that they had never engaged in vaginal intercourse. The national average for undergraduates at other colleges stood significantly lower at 31 to 32 percent...
...which looked at more than 10,000 people who received bachelor's degrees in 1999-2000, found that just one year after graduation, women who are working full time earn only 80% as much as their male counterparts do. True, female students tend to major in fields associated with lower earnings, such as education and health professions, which accounts for part of the wage gap. But even among co-eds who majored in the same subject in college, men are still earning more money than their female counterparts just 12 months out of the college gate...
...added that although excessive sodium intake has been linked with hypertension and high blood pressure, this is the first study to comprehensively trace the long-term link between dietary sodium levels and cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S. The mortality rate was also slightly lower in the group that reduced sodium intake, although not statistically significant. Most Americans consume much more than the recommended maximum amount of 2,300 milligrams of sodium per day, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual dietary guidelines. Yet Cook said the problem is difficult to address...
...like to keep Prince Pickles in mind as Japan inches closer to revising its pacifist constitution, adopted during the American occupation after World War II. On April 13, the ruling coalition, led by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), pushed through legislation in the Diet's lower house that set ground rules for updating Japan's basic laws to reflect 21st century realities. The bill now resides in the upper house; passage could eventually lead to a national referendum on the future of the constitution's Article 9, which prohibits Japan from waging...
...life and have given me an outlet for dealing with frustration and stress in a healthy manner. Growing up, there was no better way to release some pent-up anger than by throwing down a tomahawk jam on the hoop in my backyard (even if I had to lower the hoop a few feet).Now that I’m at Harvard, where students face enormous pressure in an unpredictable environment, it’s comforting to know that in the frigid months of winter there will always be football on the weekend and in the impossibly fast-paced spring...