Word: medians
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Female heads of households (without a partner or spouse) could use a financial leg up, according to a new study from the Consumer Federation of America and Catharine P. Montalto, a professor at Ohio State University. The report showed that these women on average have one-half the median income and one-third the net worth of other household heads. As a result, says Stephen Brobeck, director of the Consumer Federation of America, many of them are likely to live on the edge of solvency. Women in these situations need financial guidance so that they don't miss...
...team decided to use 27 as the minimum BMI cutoff to define overweight because 27 is the median BMI for overweight people, said HMS Assistant Professor of Medicine Frank B. Hu, the senior author of the NHS study...
...middle of the Bay State’s best-known thoroughfare—cars whizzing past on both sides, their drivers tossing cigarette butts and empty Pringles cans out their open windows—is one of the sad neglected spaces that permeate America’s highways: the median of the Pike. The meager, desolate territory may be known to few and loved by none—but if one turnpike administrator has his way, all that could change...
...Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Chair Matthew J. Amorello, the sun might soon rise over a new kind of median, a median defined not by Jersey barriers or Jersey-esque patches of exhaust-wilted grass, but by a sleek, superfast monorail propelled from Springfield to Boston by powerful electromagnets. Commuters would still commute on either side in the familiar car lanes, but they would be the main event no longer—the median’s proud iron steed would have stolen their thunder. A high-tech, vaguely Blade Runner-flavored cream center would have at last filled the transportational Twinkie...
...such an eighth wonder to this world. Single-serving Learjets for each commuter would be cool, too, but they’re just not a feasible way to address Massachusetts’ rush-hour crunch. As cleverly right-under-our-noses a location as the Pike’s median may seem, it is hardly ideal in practical terms—a magnetic express along the same route as the existing highway would be of little use without branches connecting to suburban communities, and those branches would take yet more land and money. Even worse, the Pike delays that would...