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...UC’s year has, in some important respects, been uniquely productive. After the release of a UC report that called for a 24-hour library and cited survey data demonstrating tremendous student support for the change, the Harvard College Library finally agreed this year to a two-year pilot program that will see Lamont stay open around-the-clock during the academic workweek, beginning fall 2005. We applaud the UC’s persistence in advocating a policy change that is sure to benefit undergraduates come September...
...telephone survey of 402 Harvard alumni was conducted in late April by the professional polling agency Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. The margin of error was plus or minus 4.9 percent...
...burger lovers haven't been demanding a decision, one reason may be what Carol Tucker Foreman of the Consumer Federation of America calls the "yuck factor." A Gallup poll reported last year that 64% of Americans believe cloning animals is "morally wrong." An industry survey found that 62% of consumers would be reluctant to buy products made from cloned animals...
...spend cooking has tripled, from seven minutes per day to 22, according to John Robinson, co-author of Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time. Meanwhile the number of hours married women spend cooking has fallen from 88 minutes per day to 48. A recent survey by Mediamark Research found that the number of men ages 25 to 54 who cook for fun at least twice a week has jumped 36% in the past 10 years. No wonder Mark O'Connor at the Food Network reports "a definite increase in male viewership...
...first quarter year-on-year, and unemployment is down to 5.9% from a historic peak of 8.8% in 2003. People are again indulging in Hong Kong's favorite pastimes: shopping, job-hopping and flipping flats. Consumer confidence has led to confidence in the government. Only 23.5% of those surveyed in a poll conducted by the University of Hong Kong last week said they were dissatisfied with the administration, down dramatically from the 68% in a similar survey in 2003. When the Democratic Party held a rally recently to protest what it felt was yet another example of China's meddling...