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...positions as the government gears up for its once-a-decade count of every person living in the U.S. Most of those openings are for enumerators - people who go door to door to collect information from the roughly 35 million households that won't return their Census forms by mail. Considering the unemployment rate stands at 10% - much higher than in any other Census year since 1940 - prospective workers are turning out in droves. "The numbers who are applying are just phenomenal," says Census director Robert Groves. (See which businesses are bucking the recession...
...thank the Constitution, which mandates that the government count its residents every 10 years. The Census Bureau isn't allowed to use statistical estimates in its gauge of the population, so if a household doesn't return the 10-question form that's due to arrive in the mail in March, an enumerator will show up in May, June or July to try to get the information in person...
...Pembrey reasoned, maybe the epigenetic marks atop DNA would have had time to change. Pembrey wasn't sure how you would test such a grand theory, and he put the idea aside after the Acta paper appeared. But in May 2000, out of the blue, he received an e-mail from Bygren - whom he did not know - about the Overkalix life-expectancy data. The two struck up a friendship and began discussing how to construct a new experiment that would clarify the Overkalix mystery...
...Although I didn't realize it at the time, I did clearly violate The Times' policy, so it was perfectly fair for them to end our affiliation," Tripsas wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson...
...Since the company pays Harvard and Harvard pays me, I would not have considered this a violation," Tripsas wrote, "but as one of the editors said to me in an e-mail, 'It was also news to me that executives were paying Harvard to have you train them. That—had it been disclosed to us in the beginning—would have precluded you doing the type of column for us that you are doing...