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...kerosene lamp and the steel-blade plow, a godsend to a country that hadn't got past the simple hoe. The Southern missionaries whom the settlers hired as teachers also had a lasting impact. The educational tradition they began is one reason that Americana has only a 14% illiteracy rate in a country where one-fourth of the population cannot read or write...
...compared with about $13 million in 1971), but it is also the fastest-growing segment of the bedding market, accounting for 21% of all mattress sales. Last year 4 million water beds were sold (price: $100 to $600), nearly three-quarters of them to buyers over age 30. About one-fourth of purchasers now cite health reasons for choosing a water bed. The most common complaints are back pain, arthritis and insomnia...
First, law review members are not necessarily the "best and the brightest" at Harvard Law School, much less in the country. Only one-fourth of the class even completes the writing competition required for membership. Many others are simply uninterested in being on Law Review...
...older and the elderly are getting wealthier. Since 1970, the number of Americans over 64 has jumped by 9 million, to 29.2 million, and it will rise an additional 6 million by the year 2000. The number of elderly poor has dropped by nearly half since 1970, and almost one-fourth of all elderly households have a median net worth of between $100,000 and $250,000. Their children are not doing nearly so well, and in the two-career marriages of the 1980s, they seldom have room or time to care...
Some 20 divers worked into the night, with search lights blazing, looking for survivors. The ship was lying on a sandy bed a half-mile outside this North Sea harbor, with about one-fourth of it above water as the tide receded...