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What about other mayors? A Notebook survey found that the mayors of Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia and New Orleans do not have listed phone numbers. But Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, elected to the city council in 1983, has kept his number listed ever since. The mayors of Minneapolis, Minn., and San Antonio, Texas, can be found in the phone book, and so can the top executives of smaller towns like Topeka, Kans., and Fargo, N.D. If you ring Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, you just may get her mother, Ruth White, who calmly refers irate callers to city hall. Says White...
...from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy warned TIME that while prescription-drug abuse is a serious problem, and growing among teens, the numbers in a highly publicized study from Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse are "not a reliable estimate." The survey describes a near doubling of prescription-drug abuse from 1992 to 2003, but because of changes in the way federal statistics were gathered in the past decade, no such claim can be made, the spokesman said. Last month the libertarian Cato Institute issued a report, Treating Doctors as Drug Dealers...
...also banking on redesigned SUVs to lift sales, despite a shift in consumer sentiment away from the gas guzzlers. High profit margins on SUVs are critical to GM's bottom line. But just 34% of shoppers are now considering an SUV, a three-year low, according to a recent survey by Kelley Blue Book. Sales of fuel-saving hybrids, meanwhile, are expected to zoom from less than 1% of the market to 3.5% by 2012. Honda and Toyota sell the most hybrids, but GM plans to muscle in with hybrid versions of full-size SUVs like the Chevy Tahoe...
Restricted-Access Data. The Crimson portrays the fact that restricted access provisions apply to some of my data as extraordinary, but such provisions are routine for school, health, wage, tax, and investment records. I made an informal survey of recent studies in the economics of education and found that 70 percent of them use data that are not entirely public...
Hammonds, who could not be reached for comment, said in the press release that she intends to conduct a survey of Harvard’s junior faculty in order to shed statistical light on the murky corners of the University’s tenure policy. The survey, developed by researchers at the Graduate School of Education, has already been used at a number of other institutions...