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...suggest that closer to three-fourths of students actually entered public service careers.Even last year’s decline in private sector employment—from 41 percent in 2007 to 35 percent—may not reflect a real change, but rather result from a higher student response rate to post-graduation surveys in 2008, casting doubt on the accuracy of the numbers that have fueled the debate.Still, Director of Degree Programs Joseph McCarthy says the numbers are somewhat concerning.“When that percentage [of students entering the private sector] begins to rise above one-third...
Tests so far have had a 100 percent rate of success; Kassis said that while both human and mice testing had proven unerring in detecting the right kind of cancer, early-detection has yet to be tested in humans...
...Unfortunately, my first new car - a 1979 Pontiac Sunbird - was an unfitting $5,300 homage to the old warrior. It was a lemon, a cut-rate and an ill-aimed stab at beating the Japanese competition in the growing market for smaller cars spawned by rising fuel prices. None of the Pontiac heritage had rubbed off on the Sunbird. After the car saw several years of gentle driving, mostly by my wife, an interior door handle popped off. The fan knob went kaput, and the radio played only intermittently. The final indignity was when the hood release broke, making...
...Perhaps most surprising to the Pew researchers was that of the 7% of Americans who were raised unaffiliated, only half remained unaffiliated as adults. "Only Jehovah's Witness has a lower retention rate," says Pew analyst Gregory Smith. Unlike the disillusioned Catholics and Protestants who fled organized religion, these new adherents tend to see the positive aspects of being affiliated with a religious institution. When asked for the main reason they joined their current religion, 33% of the formerly unaffiliated cited the benefits of being spiritually and socially connected to a community, and 20% said it was a choice driven...
...result, while paychecks are taking hits, they aren't evaporating. Singapore's unemployment rate of 3.2% as of March has been creeping up but is still very low compared with the U.S. or Europe. "Instead of outright retrenchments you have days cut from work," says Manu Bhaskaran, an economist with the Centennial Group in Singapore. "When you cut somebody's pay by 10 or 12%, how much less will they spend? They might not buy a new Versace shirt but they'll still...