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Last year there wasn't enough fuel; this year there isn't enough money, and as a result administrators are aiming for a brisk 65 degrees as the median temperature in the Houses and classrooms this winter. Last year the median was about 68, and the reason for the lowered temperatures is to cut costs in order to trim the Faculty's deficit-laden budget...
...been agog. Though initial predictions that 30,000 foreign visitors would descend on the ill-equipped capital have proved far too optimistic, fight preparations are still elaborate. Thousands of precooked frozen meals have been flown in. As le super combat approaches in the former Belgian Congo, the weed-infested median along Kinshasa's main boulevard has suddenly blossomed with flowers; new street lights have been installed and virtually every building in town has been scrubbed or painted...
...country's median age moves upward from 28 today to more than 37 in about the middle of the 21st century, so will the average age of those who set trends in fashion, music and films. Professional sports too may be affected as the pool of young talent diminishes. Even now, older people are more apt to vote than younger people, and as they increase in number they will also become a greater political force. "There will be a tendency for the aging portion of the population to become more powerful," says Rand Corp.'s Dennis Detray...
...study of 295 street people in the Berkeley area, Baumohl and Miller found that the majority are young (median age: 24) white males. In general, they are poorly educated (32.5% never graduated from high school; only 9.2% from college) and, contrary to the national pattern, received considerably less education than their fathers, who, for the most part, work at blue-collar and low-level white-collar occupations...
...median income of black families was 54% that of white...