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Percentage of Japan's population under the age of 15. That's a record low for Japan, which has the world's highest ratio of elderly to young people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: May 21, 2007 | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...figures, books, games and other ancillary-revenue projects.) All of which appeals to the grownups who chaperone the movie trips and endure the repeated DVD viewings. Old-school fairy tales, after all, are boring to us, not the kids. The Shrek movies have a nigh-scientific formula for the ratio of fart jokes to ask-your-mother jokes; Shrek the Third includes a visit to a fairy-tale high school where there's a Just Say Nay rally and a stoner-sounding kid stumbles out of a coach trailed by a cloud of "frankincense and myrrh" smoke. More broadly, each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Shrek Bad for Kids? | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...Florida's legislature. But while Crist calls Bush "America's greatest Governor," he's also aware that another famous G.O.P. statehouse occupant, California's Arnold Schwarzenegger, is prospering by trying to cut deals with Democrats. "I've got two ears and one mouth, and I try to respect that ratio," Crist told TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Undoing Jeb Bush in Florida | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...body language will make you want to get in the water and enjoy the season. HIGH NOON by Nora Roberts Anyone staring at the cover of this book is sure to be blinded either by the glare of the sun hitting its monochromatic orange palette or by the absurd ratio of author-letter size to title-letter size. Even if they do squint at the cover long enough to read the title, you’ll still look mysterious because they’ll have no idea what it’s about—a book titled...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BY ITS COVER | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...According to Deloitte's 2006 Annual Review of Football Finance, the top five earners in the 2004-05 season - Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Newcastle United - accounted for almost half of both revenue and salary costs. And though average club revenue hit $124 million in 2004-05, the ratio of revenue at the richest club to that of the poorest is 4.7:1, well over twice the NFL's rate and almost double the NBA's. While income from TV rights in the NFL is split evenly between all 32 teams, half of domestic rights in the Premier League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Goal Rush | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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