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...least in some parts of the country, opinion is shifting in their favor. According to the National Health and Social Life Survey, the total proportion of U.S.-born males who were circumcised peaked in 1965 at about 85%, dropping to 77% in 1971, the last year of the study. The National Hospital Discharge Survey, which began tallying newborn circumcisions in 1979, shows a downward trend, from 65% that year to 57% in 2005. Much of the decline is attributed to immigration from Latin America and Asia, where the procedure is rare. Additionally, in more than a dozen states, Medicaid...
...were gone, our state of society would perish with it," declared Jefferson's chief evangelical critic, Yale president Timothy Dwight. The Jeffersonians bit back. "Now I don't know that John Adams is a hypocrite, or Jefferson a Deist," one wrote, "yet supposing they are, I am of the opinion the last ought to be preferred to the first [because] a secret enemy is worse than an open and avowed...
...BOOK?With the increase in digitization, one question weighs heavily on the minds of many involved with the Harvard library system: how will this change the role of the book? There doesn’t seem to be an easy answer. Both Verba and Darnton share an opinion that digitization may not impair book readership and sales, but could actually boost them instead. “There’s something about a book, and it is also one of the world’s greatest technologies, in that it is a technology that doesn’t change...
...dean of the Faculty. Twenty-six students will be consulted for two hours. That means that if every student spoke equally and without breaks, each student could speak for almost five minutes about the College—hardly enough time to say anything meaningful, much less yield an opinion on possible candidates. An advisory committee of Faculty members also exists, but in no official way will students, associate deans of the College, House masters, or members of the Faculty have direct influence over who the dean of the Faculty picks to serve as the next dean of the College...
...anachronistic. But even as both the print and broadcast media seek to revitalize themselves, the FCC needs to be careful in the amount of deregulation they allow. These kinds of horizontal monopolies are less-than-ideal solutions.The most vulnerable targets in cross-format ownership are objectivity and diversity of opinion. The news world is incredibly small, with the same reporters often working and appearing across multiple formats.Print reporters end up writing the books that are then reviewed and discussed on television and talk programs, creating a small community of highly visible and highly opinionated people. Newspapers pride themselves on unbiased...