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...sports-worshipping years are precisely the time that kids learn to drink. The median age at which they start drinking is just over 13. A 1990 survey found that 56% of students in Grades 5 through 12 say alcohol advertising encourages them to drink. Surprise...
...about 2.5%. And there are many hot spots. The Midwest is seeing some of the biggest leaps, while house hunters in such cities as San Francisco, Seattle, New York and Boston increasingly find they must pay more than the asking price to win a bidding war. Nationally, the median sales price for existing homes will be up 5% this year and an additional 6% next year, the National Association of Realtors (N.A.R.) projects...
Over a ten-year period and after adjusting for inflation, there was a 28 percent increase in private four-year college tuition, although the average median family income mostly remained constant, the College Board reported...
...black students now go to majority-white schools--a higher degree of segregation than existed 26 years ago, when the Supreme Court first upheld mandatory busing. In these circumstances, the N.A.A.C.P.'s. insistence on school integration appears antiquated to many young blacks--a situation that an organization with a median age approaching 50 can ill afford...
...Brown he nurtured it into a nationwide corps of 30,000 activists. He was elected to the Sierra Club's 15-member board of directors in 1994, and last spring his colleagues voted him in as president. His mission? Gen X-ing a 600,000-member organization with a median...