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...tenure offers made last year, only four of them—or 13 percent??went to women. These numbers have declined successively every year since 36 percent of all offers went to women in 2000-2001, the last year that Neil L. Rudenstine served as University president...
...consequence of the Green Fund, there have been some 20 or more projects that have come to fruition. We’ve seen an average rate of return of close to 40 percent??that’s even better than the endowment,” he said. “And today I am pleased to announce that we are doubling the size of that fund...
Over the last 30 years, the Arctic icecap has melted by 15-20 percent??and the melting is apparently speeding up, according to a new report by an eight-nation group bringing together the work of 250 scientists under the title of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment...
...these issues gave Bush his winning margin, how is it that the percentage of voters who are unwaveringly pro-life stayed at 16 percent??the same as in 2000? How is it that the country’s views on homosexuality have become more tolerant, with a majority now supporting either gay marriage or civil unions, and that Bush’s percentage of the vote in the 11 states that passed gay marriage bans increased by a smaller proportion from 2000 than did the national average? And how is it that the percentage of voters identifying themselves...
...California enacted the recall, the referendum, and the initiative processes, all efforts to clean out corruption in Sacramento by promoting direct democracy. All it takes to place a proposition on the statewide ballot is a fee of $200 and signatures of registered voters equal to 5 or 7 percent??depending on the type of initiative—of the turnout of the previous gubernatorial election. Unfortunately, what progressives fought so hard to implement has now been hijacked by special interest groups that mask their agendas through massive marketing campaigns...