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Female sailors visited the sick bay aboard one of the U.S. Navy's ships nearly 10 times more than their male counterparts, a "startling difference" the Navy had not expected to see, according to a new study. "With a female-to-male visit ratio of more than 9 to 1, the conversion of a ship with an all-male crew to 10 percent female would essentially double the clinical workload of the ship's medical department," says the article in the latest issue of Military Medicine, a respected professional journal for U.S. military physicians...
...academy will lengthen the CRLS summer program from its current four weeks to five weeks and will increase the teacher-to-student ratio for most classes...
...running through the hourglass. With the economy turning down in the summer and revenues falling, firms had to dig deeper and deeper into their pockets to service their IOUs. By winter, four times as many companies had their credit rating downgraded as had it upgraded, the worst such ratio since 1990, according to Moody's Investor Services...
...Barnett, who opened the first Kinkade gallery in 1992, is in charge of developing the franchise both nationally - there are 360 in the U.S. - and internationally. He sees no limit to Kinkade's global potential. "We have about an 80% acceptance ratio in the U.S., which is huge!" he says. "That means 80% of Americans accept Thomas Kinkade as a viable commodity or product to go into their home." The reason for Kinkade's appeal is simple, Barnett believes. "His work doesn't operate on the fringe. It just speaks of peace and home and love and family, and everyone...
...usual meat-market environment of trendy Boston nightclub Avalon is curiously changed tonight. The excited chatter is about two octaves higher than usual, and a quick inspection reveals a 20:1 girl to guy ratio. Indeed, it seems the only specimens of the male persuasion are reluctant boyfriends—one of them is curiously out of place in a Jim Morrison jacket, trying to look nonchalant. Somewhere, off in the far rear section of the line, an impossibly shrill voice pierces the winter frost and highlights the ineffable strangeness of the night...