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In the battle over taxes and spending, as well as the upcoming battle over health care and other issues, a handful of Senators now holds the keys to success or failure for Clinton in his first year in office. This pride of new Senate lions differs substantially from the Lyndon...
Swan said, "Since eating disorders are a part of the psychology of students who are overachievers, the statistic that one in five Harvard women have eating disorders seems realistic," Swan said. Swan attributed much of the eating disorder problem to overly-stringent cultural expectations.
Binge eating among women dropped from 26 percent in 1982 to 19 percent. Among men, the statistic dropped from 13.5 to five percent.
This frightening statistic, presented by Nancy Brinker in her 1990 autobiography of one woman's struggle against breast cancer, brings home the staggering reality of the disease--a disease which remains second only to lung cancer as the major cause of cancer deaths in women.
Since activists and fund raisers have a marked preference for large figures, Americans might be tempted to lop off some digits whenever they're lobbed a statistic. Alas, such a simple solution doesn't work when it comes to official numbers. Governmental authorities misleadingly tout both high and low statistics...