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...enriching Internet activities are increasingly popular with the 50-plus set, and there are far more folks in this age group online than there were just a few years ago. Among adults over 50, 54% use the Internet and 24% have a high-speed hookup, according to a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That's up sharply from 38% and 5%, respectively...
...here's the really tricky question: They may be having more babies, but are the French having more sex? That was once an easy question to answer. As recently as 2004, the French led the world in its frequency of sex, according to the annual global survey sponsored by condom maker Durex. But in 2005 they tied for fifth place, and Greece took the lead. Just a thought, but maybe all those bawling, squalling babies aren't great for your sex life...
Agglomeration applies to labor talent as well. In a survey of international financial services execs published in 2005 by Z/Yen, a London consultancy, almost a third of those polled rated the availability of skilled labor in Paris and Frankfurt as poor. Three-quarters thought London's was excellent. Hourly productivity among the U.K.'s financial-services workers is estimated to have climbed 3.6% per year between 1997 and 2001, according to a 2005 report, well above the 2% growth in the British economy as a whole over that period. No doubt, London's captains of capital are handsomely paid...
...happens that actors represent the largest craft in the Motion Picture Academy, accounting for about a quarter of its 6,000-or-so voters. So the SAG prize is a good survey not just of their preferences but of the entire membership...
...anything like the last one. A New York Times/CBS News poll last week showed the President's approval rating plunging 21 points in the past four weeks, from 67% to 46%. That is the most dramatic one-month drop since presidential opinion polls began 50 years ago. The survey found that 53% of the voters think Reagan knew "money from the Iranian arms sales was going to help the contras," even though the President insists that...