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...this the cure for ovarian cancer? No. As of November, more than 200 study participants had suffered a recurrence of their cancer and died. But the median survival rate was better than five years for the group that received intravenous and intra-abdominal chemotherapy, compared with a little more than four years for the intravenous-only group. That's a big gain when you realize success in cancer studies is usually measured in months, not years...
...speech earlier this year. "The average age at marriage has increased in the last few decades, and the number of children born to LDS married couples has decreased." While the church says it does not keep age statistics for marriage, in Utah--which is more than 60% Mormon--the median age at the first wedding, though still the lowest nationally, went up by about a year in the period from 2000 to 2003, to 21.9 years for women and 23.9 for men, after remaining flat since 1985. Today, more than 30% of Latter-day Saints are singles over 22 (including...
...trend extended to public universities, where the median presidential salary jumped 10 percent to $360,000. Still, presidents at private research universities earned far more, with a median salary...
...individuals, markets are beginning to offer potentially useful opportunities to hedge risk in their lives. Do you think the real estate market is going to crash and take your house with it? HedgeStreet.com lets you take a position on the median home price in a number of large cities by matching your bet in a "hedgelet" against someone with the opposite opinion. Similarly, you can hedge the price of gasoline, mortgage rates or inflation rates. Wolfers believes that individuals will ultimately be able to use markets to hedge everything, even their own employability...
...come from a family earning under $36,000, it's 1 in 17. People at the top of the income scale pass down the skills one needs to thrive in this economy to their kids who get into Harvard--where the median student comes from a family making $150,000 a year--and they go on to an affluent suburb. And they pass it down, so you get really good public high schools, and people there are more likely to marry people like themselves...