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...established in 1993 to encourage volunteer service among American citizens. Contrary to the popular idea that college students, whose demographic is sometimes nicknamed the “Me” Generation, are not interested in public service, the study revealed that undergraduate participation in public service and volunteer programs rose 20 percent from 2002 to 2005. The data comprises figures collected from the U.S. Census Bureau’s population surveys from 2002 to 2005, which canvassed 240,000 households. The number of college students participating in public service around the nation went from 2.7 million...
...consider wildly indirect measures: cable-subscription data (reasoning that as more houses were wired for cable, more young kids were watching) and rainfall patterns (other research has correlated TV viewing with rainy weather). Lo and behold, they found that reported autism cases within certain counties in California and Pennsylvania rose at rates that closely tracked cable subscriptions, rising most rapidly in counties with the fastest-growing cable service. The same was true of autism and rainfall patterns in California, Pennsylvania and Washington State. Their oddly definitive conclusions: "Approximately 17% of the growth in autism in California and Pennsylvania during...
...behold, Waldman and colleagues found that reported autism cases within certain counties in California and Pennsylvania rose at rates that closely tracked cable subscriptions, rising fastest in counties with fastest-growing cable. The same was true of autism and rainfall patterns in California, Pennsylvania and Washington State. Their oddly definitive conclusions: "Approximately 17% of the growth in autism in California and Pennsylvania during the 1970s and 1980s was due to the growth of cable television," and "just under 40% of autism diagnoses in the three states studied is the result of television watching due to precipitation...
...tenured professors are women.The report by Lisa L. Martin, the FAS senior adviser on diversity, called the drop a “troubling reversal.” The dramatic fall in women’s acceptances came even though the fraction of tenure-track offers to women rose slightly, to 39 percent, last academic year.“It’s hard to know whether this is just a one-year blip or whatever,” Martin, the Dillon professor of international affairs, said in a phone interview. “All this shows is that...
...roughly 60 percent of the population, who are clearly very heavily engaged now in the new government, but who were denied their role all those years Saddam was in power, governed by a Sunni minority, if you will -- and so beaten down, especially after the '91 episode where they rose up against the regime and then were slaughtered in large numbers that it has been hard, I think, for them in some cases to step forward and take on responsibility. But now they're doing it. And it's risky business...