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...true civic illiteracy, and not of unreasonably difficult or obscure questions. Although Harvard’s score of almost 70 percent was the highest of all schools surveyed, seniors’ scores reflected less than a 2 percent improvement over the performance of freshmen, and the ISI noticed relatively poorer senior scores, with respect to freshmen, at 16 of the schools it surveyed. This relative stagnation or decline, however, may simply reflect that, yes, college students forget some of the facts and dates they memorize in high school. Even if America is truly facing a crisis of civics education...
...water to desert hamlets, and nutritional information to schools have also boosted Lula's standing among the poor, as did a 23% increase in the minimum wage over the last two years. Together, these measures have contributed to a reversal of the seemingly endless trend of the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer...
...Morocco so special," says Billaux, the Rabat homeowner. "On the other hand, you can't ask people you've come to live with to eternally lag 50 years behind for our sake." That used to be the dilemma that confronted richer Europeans making new homes in the Continent's poorer nations; now it plays out in Europe's neighbors...
...size can be a bummer if you already spent $48 buying the poorer-quality version of the first season of 24 And if you decide to repurchase, the new files take twice as long to download. The larger size also means more of a drain on older video-capable iPods. They didn't have terrific battery life for video playback before, and they do slightly worse with the new files...
...ignore some information. Recruiters don’t ask for race or age or sex. Doctors don’t demand that patients undergo criminal background checks. In such situations, we recognize that more information can give us more choices and at the same time, make us poorer decision-makers. And so we decide that the best choice is to make the information flow stop...