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...first quarter year-on-year, and unemployment is down to 5.9% from a historic peak of 8.8% in 2003. People are again indulging in Hong Kong's favorite pastimes: shopping, job-hopping and flipping flats. Consumer confidence has led to confidence in the government. Only 23.5% of those surveyed in a poll conducted by the University of Hong Kong last week said they were dissatisfied with the administration, down dramatically from the 68% in a similar survey in 2003. When the Democratic Party held a rally recently to protest what it felt was yet another example of China's meddling...
...Rank of Hong Kong in a new survey measuring the entrepreneurial spirit of 35 world economies by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 10 Rank of Shenzhen, the mainland Chinese city across the border from Hong Kong...
...back on "unnecessary" programs like art, music and physical education, while pressure from parents to raise academic standards has in many places squeezed even recess from the curriculum. Only 56% of U.S. high school students were enrolled in a phys-ed class as of the most recent survey, in 2003, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and only 28% have gym every day, down from 42% in 1991. And that's overall; the percentages among African-American and Hispanic kids are even lower...
...Americans stack up on those measures? No one knows. Assessing them requires treadmills, calipers, piles of gym equipment--and lots of money. The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports used to conduct a national fitness survey of American schoolkids, but that hasn't happened since the mid-'80s. "No federal agency is interested in picking up the tab," says Russell Pate, a professor of exercise science at the University of South Carolina...
...many Americans get a moderate 30 minutes at least five times a week? In a TIME survey of more than 1,000 randomly selected American adults, 33% said they do. Federal surveys suggest that it's more like 26%, although if you include data on activities such as gardening and cleaning, as opposed to just recreational exercise, the figure jumps to about 45%. In short, somewhere from a quarter to half of Americans say they get the recommended dose of exercise, although the lower figure may be more trustworthy. People are notorious for lying about their exercise habits...