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Wise people do not discuss sex or money, and a new survey shows why. MONEY magazine polled a national sample of 2,491 adults, all of whom described themselves as the main financial decision makers in their households. Sixty-three percent of the respondents were men; 37% were women. Among...
The paper's hallmark remains the factoid, a short fact or statistic that appears halfway into a story to buttress a point or offer an example. Factoids: Appear in clusters. Can be as short as a few words or as long as several paragraphs. Always have this little box.
Here's a little statistic that means a lot. In hotel rooms where pornography is available, two-thirds of all movie purchases are for pornos; and the average time they are watched is 12 minutes. The image instantly summoned is of the traveling businessman who wants a smidge of sexual...
Under a dim bedside lamp in a hospital ward in Landstuhl, Germany, 1st Infantry Division Specialist Shane Salter sobs for his dead sergeant, whose hand he clutched in a morgue in Iraq just five days earlier. At 22, Salter, from Walla Walla, Washington, is so young that he called 29...
There have been waves of bad job news out of Germany lately - unemployment in February reached 5.2 million, the highest level since World War II. But read the fine print: Germany created thousands of new jobs last year, too. According to the Federal Statistical Office, 261,000 jobs were created...