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...think U.S. consumer spending is in secular decline due to a shortage of income. The only part of personal income in the United States that's growing is government benefits, whether it's food stamps, welfare or unemployment insurance. But organic income is going down at a record rate, especially wages and salaries. (See how Americans are cutting back...
...response rates offer some indication of the planners’ success, then the class of 1984 has won, breaking a record for having the largest class report with the highest participation rate of about two-thirds. For this reunion, the Reunion Committee is offering price packaging plan different from others at the University, including a weekend only package, in order to make the reunion more affordable...
...proliferation of communication-gadgets-cum-appendages has profoundly increased the speed at which we all operate. With the aid of our ubiquitous laptops and cell phones, the viral circulation rate of cultural memes never ceases to amaze (within four days, no less than 21 million viewers had paid witness to Susan Boyle’s on-stage coup d’état). The more fundamental change, however, has come in the content, volume, and sources from which we glean our information. The scope and depth of answerable academic questions has broadened dramatically with the advent of digitized databases...
...better fitted for writing than for farming,” White wrote of the situation, “because farming takes great strength and endurance. Intellectually I am better fitted for farming than for writing.” The irony, of course, is that White was both a first-rate intellectual and a competent husbandman—cultivated and cultivator. We too should aspire to this kind of creative holism, where the distinctions between human activities are slowly eroded and erased...
Africa, a continent of nearly one billion people with the world’s highest mortality rate at every age group and from nearly every cause, has no in-depth, large-scale longitudinal studies of its people’s health. No studies similar to Harvard University’s Nurses’ Health Study, which has studied lifestyle factors of 121,700 female nurses for 33 years, down to what they drink and eat, how much they exercise or smoke, and detailing their family and reproductive histories exist. Harvard, with its unmatched experience in this and other large cohort...