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It's also huge: government researchers fanned out across the nation in 2002, surveying 12,571 Americans ages 15 to 44. That included plenty of nonteenagers, of course, but it's the teens who provided the most provocative talking points. More than half the adolescents surveyed, for example, said they...
Another surprise: about 11% of girls 15 to 19 say they have had at least one same-sex encounter--the same percentage that was found in women 18 to 44. (The biggest proportion, 14%, was among women 18 to 29.) You would expect the numbers to rise steadily, if slowly...
Proportion in operation as of Sept. 10
Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless. Furious critics charged last week that the...
Japan and India may fare a little better. Japan has seen an improvement recently in domestic demand, which?if sustained?would cushion any shortfall in exports. Japan also benefits from the extraordinary progress it has made in improving its energy efficiency. Since 1973, Japan's oil intensity ratio?a measure...