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...Substance Abuse at Columbia University. In 1991, 31% of boys and 22% of girls in 10th grade engaged in BINGE DRINKING, defined as having five or more drinks in a row. In 1999, 34% of boys and 31% of girls were binge drinkers. Though an early, eye-popping stat from the study--that underage drinkers consume 25% of all the nation's alcohol--turned out to be overstated (it's actually only half that), the problem is still huge: more than 5 million HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS are binge drinkers...
...weakest part of the whole crumbling structure. The essential question now: are they chronically metastasized with bad loans - very sick but possibly curable - or are the banks on the point of complete implosion? The largest banks expect to collectively lose $17 billion this fiscal year. The latest official stat on irrecoverable loans is $135 billion, though nobody has ever trusted that figure: the only sure thing was that the mountain of bad loans from the bubble period, troubling enough at the time, has grown exponentially with bankruptcies and the decline in the stock market. Kenneth Courtis, vice chairman of Goldman...
Hetherington found that 25% of children from divorced families have serious social, emotional or psychological problems, as opposed to 10% of kids from intact families. That's 2 1/2 times the risk--on its face, a stat worth worrying over. Hetherington acknowledges the gap between kids in nuclear and postnuclear families: "You can say, 'Wow, that's twice as big,' as some clinicians like Wallerstein do. But what it also means is that 75% of kids are functioning within the normal range. People don't focus on the resiliency of children...
...Business inventories, meanwhile, duly presented their own paradox. They fell in October (for the ninth consecutive month) by 1.4 percent, an all-time record for the stat and twice as much as the consensus forecast expected. Now remember that this was October, a fairly long time ago - should we be pleased that inventories were continuing to be cleansed, to make way for new capital investments, new production and new profits? Or do we get disappointed that those businesses hadn't gotten out of the cleaning phase...
...300th game last season, that’s almost a given. And he will certainly have some weapons at his disposal, most notably senior Russ Bartlett, who was third on the team in scoring last season with a very impressive 18-25-43 stat line...