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...with all creatures big and small in just six days, there's no reconciling faith with Darwinism. And polls indicate that approximately 45% of Americans believe that. It's no wonder that almost one-third of the 1,050 teachers who responded to a National Science Teachers Association online survey in March said they had felt pressured by parents and students to include lessons on intelligent design, creationism or other nonscientific alternatives to evolution in their science classes; 30% noted that they felt pressured to omit evolution or evolution-related topics from their curriculum...
Percentages of U.S. teenagers who have used dietary supplements, growth hormones or anabolic steroids, according to a Harvard University survey of more than 10,000 adolescents...
...much for a summer getaway. A new survey by online travel company Expedia reports that a record 421 million vacation days will go unused this year; 31% of us will not use all our vacation, and the average worker will leave three days on the table (up from two in 2003). For one-third of the work force, the longest vacation will be seven days or less. That's good news for employers, who will save about $54 billion. But that's not so great for the travel- and-leisure industry, which is scrambling to reverse the trend. Expedia...
...OMB’s winning advance, the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), is a way of tracking the effectiveness of federal programs using a rigorous survey with both multiple choice and open-ended questions. This year, the OMB plans to complete reviews of 20 percent of federal programs, and expects to step it up to 80 percent next year, according to Robert Shea, an OMB spokesman...
...Reported levels of emotional and physical problems are higher among U.S. middle school students than among their peers in all 11 other countries surveyed by the World Health Organization. The same "health behavior" survey found that U.S. middle schoolers have the most negative views of the climate of their schools and peer culture...