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According to Wade Clark Roof, a sociologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara who has studied boomers' attitudes toward God, about a third have never strayed from church. Another one-fourth of boomers are defectors who have returned to religious practice -- at least for now. The returnees are usually less tied to tradition and less dependable as church members than the loyalists. They are also more liberal, which deepens rifts over issues like abortion and homosexuality...
...consumers," whose symptoms include lack of coverage, inadequate coverage or the terror of losing insurance through a job change or the whim of some green-visored claims adjuster. Another worthy "patient" is American business, or at least businesses that offer health benefits to their employees. These benefits, which consume one-fourth of corporate net income, have become like cement shoes on the feet of American enterprise, threatening to hobble the entire economy...
...might also come as a surprise to know that students of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant descent are now underrepresented at Harvard. The only two groups that are over represented--and they happen to be extremely overrepresented--are Jewish and Asian students, who comprise about one-fourth and one fifth of the class of 1996, respectively...
...CARE SUBSIDIES Like Social Security, the Medicare program pays benefits (for hospitalization and other medical treatment) to all retirees, regardless of their income. As with Social Security, retirees collect far more from Medicare than they paid in taxes to the program. Taxing even half this subsidy for the wealthiest one-fourth of retirees would raise $5.4 billion a year. An additional premium charged to couples who earn $125,000 a year, for doctors' services received through Medicare, would net $1.9 billion more a year...
Using the same calculations as above, if only one-fourth of the first-years put down Eliot, and of those half designate it as their first choice, Eliot will end up about 60 percent first-choice students, only 10 percent higher than the 50 percent first-choice designators under non-ordered choice. However, enhanced choice would also increase your chances of getting into Eliot House by 7.5 percent...