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...tipping, common in restaurants, hotels, and strip clubs (among other places), is pervasive in America. But elsewhere it is often unheard-of. In some countries, tacking on 15 percent to a bill is considered an oddly Yankee convention, done only by tourists...
Other recent studies have found that today’s women, on average, enjoy themselves three percent less than their male counterparts. To use a real-life example, if 100 men and 100 women are at the same party, three more men than women are having a good time. I like to think that these men are talking to the women, ruining their evenings. Yet why is there this enjoyment gap? One theory posits that today’s women—especially high-achieving young women—combine all the pressures of their male counterparts with an imperative...
NCAA guidelines consider a competitor to have fully participated in a season if he or she has attended 20 percent of the tournaments. Having competed in every tournament that fall, Rooney’s athletic sophomore year was considered complete, even if her academic one was cut short...
...budget is not adequately serving students. When club sports are denied funding across the board and grant applicants are rebuffed because of an alleged want of funds, the UC is obligated to ensure that the shortfall actually exists. And when the leftovers add up to more than 10 percent of the UC’s entire budget, something is very, very wrong...
Responding to a question about further expansion of the bank, Yunus noted that 85 percent of the 120 million people with access to microloans are located in Asia. Yunus pointed to other nations where Grameen and its partners are expanding their reach, such as Argentina and Turkey...