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...early ticket sales are any indication, surrendering to the Twi-hards is working. Twenty-four hours before the film opened, some 2,000 shows were already sold out, many of them midnight Thursday-night screenings. And in a survey Fandango conducted of early ticket buyers, 85% said they plan to see Twilight more than once. It wouldn't be the first time young women paid to see a movie over and over again; the same demographic helped Titanic become the highest-grossing film of all time...
...just young women clearing their calendars this weekend, either. Half of the respondents to another Fandango survey of Twilight ticket buyers are over 25, including many Twilight moms. About a quarter of respondents are mothers and daughters planning to see the movie together...
...There's also some question of how communities around the nation will react to the new workforce. Many Japanese perceive the nation as ethnically homogeneous, despite the fact that Chinese and Korean minorities have been living here for most of last century. According to a 2006 survey by the Women's Association for the Better Aging Society, nearly 60% of elderly patients prefer to be cared by Japanese caregivers. Even Nakayama, who is looking forward to welcoming his new staff, says, that "kerchiefed Indonesian women will stand out" in his rural area. Police in Aomori visited his facilities after they...
...analysis included 540 patients in Canada who were recruited by telephone survey. All patients had been previously diagnosed with asthma and were prescribed medication to control their symptoms. Over the course of up to four lab visits and a battery of pulmonary tests, which included examining how well patients fared when their asthma medications were tapered off or taken away, researchers confirmed the diagnosis in 346 patients, or 70%. But for 150 patients - who accounted for 31.8% of obese participants and 27.8% of their normal-weighted peers - their initial diagnosis was wrong. Indeed, says Aaron, many of these patients...
...Gordon Gee, we have the best and most experienced university president in the nation.” But Gee wasn’t the only public university head who took home a large paycheck this year. Presidential salaries at nearly a third of the public institutions surveyed exceeded $500,000, and 15 public university presidents earned over $700,000. With this increase, compensation for public university leaders is catching up with that of their private university peers. Compensation for top executives at private institutions stayed relatively flat overall, although the survey found significant increases at some of the wealthiest private...