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...years Median age at first marriage for women in 2003, up from 20.8 in 1970; the median age for men, 27.1 years, increased from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Dec. 13, 2004 | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...discrepancies baffle Fornero because the median family income in the integrated city is $71,293 and the district spends a generous $9,234 on each pupil. Furthermore, the vast majority of students come from homes in which at least one parent is college educated. "How do I market the district to African-American parents with these numbers?" he says of the black students' performance. "We can't have one set of facts we put on billboards in front of the schools and another set we don't talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing The Gap | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...course, catering to FORTUNE 500 CEOs, heads of state, Hollywood hot shots and jet-setters who frequent the property--where the median room rate is $495 a night and $1,800 a night for suites--is part of the job. But these days, Lopes and his counterparts around the globe say, survival in the lucrative but competitive luxury travel industry means going to extraordinary lengths to indulge guests. During the Hotel Bel-Air's renovation 18 months ago, Lopes redecorated 16 suites according to the tastes of their most frequent occupants. As a result, the bungalow used by a certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Life: Hotel Heaven | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

SLAUGHTER: Much of the discussion is breathlessly waiting for next month's unemployment report and seeing how many manufacturing jobs there are in Ohio and Florida. That is nowhere near sufficient to grapple with the sort of issues we've talked about. The median person in the U.S. labor force today has a high school diploma and about one year of post-high school education. That person is going to have a job, but how productive and how highly compensated is that job going to be? Maybe we could have tax cuts for less skilled Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Think Globally, Act Locally | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...were having a crap time getting this together,” Brown said. Of the 3,000 students they identified as living in zip codes with a median income of $60,000 or lower, he said the recruiters only reached 1,000 students. And of those, he said only 87 replied that they would qualify for the benefits of the new financial aid initiative...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Recruit Low Income Applicants | 10/8/2004 | See Source »

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