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Beauty buying habits: The most popular purchase is fragrance?which can mean anything from a foreign brand to a local or custom-made scent. Most consumers who buy fragrance are responding to either the reputation of the brand or an advertisement they have seen. Thirty-four percent of respondents said they bought a particular perfume because it was expensive...
...average, seniors nationwide answered about 54 percent of the questions correctly. Harvard seniors scored an average of 70 percent—almost 6 percent higher than freshmen here...
...It’s hard for anyone to stand up and say that it’s a good thing that only 45.9 percent of graduating seniors know that the line ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ comes from the Declaration of Independence,” Andrews said. “It’s hard to turn that into a partisan issue...
...Initial hope that the city would rebound quickly gave way to the devastating realization that the city’s levees had been breached, putting 80 percent of New Orleans underwater. The area’s schools would not reopen for the semester, leaving students with an uncertain future...
...that point, the impact of the disease seemed undeniable: With 25 percent of South Africa’s national population infected and 600 deaths each day, South Africa’s AIDS epidemic had already decimated communities. Yet because the disease remained a death sentence primarily for South Africa’s poor, its fearful name was rarely spoken. And for those brave enough to break the silence that exacerbated misunderstanding and perpetuated inaction, the price could be dear. In late 1998, a woman named Gugu Dlamini publicly announced that she was HIV-positive on radio and television stations; soon...