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These are among the key findings of a national opinion survey conducted for TIME by the research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc., from Sept. 15 through 17.* The survey also showed that the President is making progress in one of his avowed aims: to make Americans feel better about themselves and their country. There has been modest but steady improvement in the national mood during Reagan's tune in office. Slightly more than one-third of the people (36%) agree that the state of the nation is good; only 18% held that view in January...
...miles. Many scientists believe that after decades of quietude, the pressure on sections of the San Andreas is reaching the point at which something will have to give. Researchers have been rushing to instrument the fault--"setting out traplines," as Ken Hudnut, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), puts it--to catch the faintest movements and seismic mutterings...
...WOMEN AND THE DENTIST Women are 21/2 times more likely to fear dental visits, according to a survey of 1,100 Canadians. Or more likely to admit that...
...turns out we are not alone. In a survey of 303 women taken before they went into labor and published in Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey, one-fourth fully expected to have an epidural and an additional 40% thought one would be likely. About a third, however, wanted to avoid the epidural, and 7% said they would never have one under any circumstances. As it turned out, however, nearly 8 out of 10 women in this study ended up having an epidural, including nearly half the women who said they would never have...
...course, the strategy may not work. The people might not be roused. Arroyo's popularity rating is at a historic low: polling organization Social Weather Survey in May found 59% of Filipinos were dissatisfied with her performance and only 26% satisfied. But Arroyo has no obvious successor. When Filipinos took to the streets in February 1986, they were rebelling against Marcos?but they were also elevating Corazon Aquino, who had been cheated in a snap presidential election earlier in the same month. In 2001, the People Power movement knew who would replace Estrada (he had narrowly avoided being removed from...