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An estimated 14% of Americans profess to have no religion, and among 18-to-25-year-olds, the proportion rises to 20%, according to the Institute for Humanist Studies. The lives of these young people would be much easier, adult nonbelievers say, if they learned at an early age how...
But even after accounting for these factors, women waited about 20 seconds longer. And the wait increases when lines are longer and decreases when the proportion of female employees is higher.
The skillful use of religious media may be more important to Republican presidential wannabes this campaign than in the past. Various religious conservative groups are chasing different agendas so they haven't been trying to unite behind a candidate, which means the candidates must woo them one by one. This...
In these, we had little or no perceptible stake of our own. Britain, with grim enthusiasm, condemned us to assist in the creation of dead colonial heroes. In World War I, Australia lost 59,258 young men out of a total of 330,000 sent abroad. Both as a proportion...
When the first baby boomer filed for Social Security in mid-October, chills must have coursed along Laurence Kotlikoff's spine. For years the Boston University economist, among others, has been warning of our pending financial crisis--the burden of Social Security and health care for our largest generation on...