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Though there has been some good news on the economic front lately, with unemployment dipping to 6.4%, its lowest since 1992, tough questions for the country's future remain unresolved. Italy is hobbled by a chronic lack of economic and social mobility, an unsustainable pension system and public debt that stands at 106% of GDP. Illegal immigration is exploding while birth rates are among the lowest in Europe. Intractable poverty and organized crime remain endemic across the southern half of the country...
...show that the population of juvenile males in prison is only half of its historic high. The number of high school senior boys using illegal drugs has fallen by almost half compared with the number in 1980. And the percentage of high school boys drinking heavily is now the 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...
...that's a decrease of 10 percentage points from the early 1990s. Boys who are having sex report that they are more responsible about it: 7 in 10 are using condoms, compared with about half in 1993. As a result, teen pregnancy and abortion rates are now at their lowest recorded levels...
...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 drew on a survey of around 15 peer institutions to help formulate the changes to the student activities fee policy. The survey revealed that Harvard had the lowest fee and was one of only two schools with an optional student activities charge...